Chicago/London-PRESS claims Y2k is Scam

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

This will not make life any easier to get  funds or support  for your
Year/2000 project or credibility.

At 01:59 PM 01/05/1998 GMT, Peter W Duncanson wrote:
The following is an extract from the weekly column by Jonathan Miller 
in the (London, UK) Sunday Times:-

" I was pleased to see the computer columnist for the  Chicago Tribune is
debunking the millennium 2000  computer hysteria. Welcome to the world's
smallest club. I  have been warning that this is a scam since the spring
and,  as events have unfolded, it looks like becoming the biggest  scam of
the millennium. What is clever is that irrespective  of future events the
computer consultants will claim to have  been right. If little happens when
2000 comes along, the  consultants will claim credit for fixing the bug; if
everything  crashes, they will say they warned us. Either way, they will
collect vast fees. I see Tony Blair [UK Prime Minister],   who does not
know  Basic from a pump handle, has now fallen for the hype. He  is taking
command of a government taskforce and is raising  the matter in Europe. 

" I am prepared to admit that the millennium bug is a tiny bit  real, but
in the grand scheme of things it is actually quite a  minor problem.
Evidence that this is not a full-bore crisis is  ignored. There are few
"help wanted" ads in the computer  sections of newspapers recruiting
millennium bug
 reprogrammers. 

" It is also curious how little litigation there seems to be. One  would
have thought that vendors who sold defective  software would be liable, and
that the lawyers would be  feasting. But so far there has been a deafening
silence from  our learned friends."

And then a spectacular misunderstanding:-

" The computers most of us use crash  seven times a day anyway so if they
crash on January 1,
 2000, what difference would it make? "

URL: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/  The Contact Us link can be used  to
e-mail the Editor.



Glenn
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