Re: Y2K Lawsuit

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce,

True.  I can either make a case for known deffective code or defend it
with future correction...  That's the kind of cases we'll see in a few
months...:)

Don

On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr. wrote:

> But that comment does not necessarily mean that the code didn't already exist 
>and
> one of the developers at least noted it for future correction.  So the 
>comment, in
> and of itself, is not an indictment.
> 
> Don wrote:
> 
> > > HOPEFULLY any judge will see that these people made the DUMB decision to 
>buy a
> > > release and never move forward...
> >
> > That will depend...especially on how it was presented to the prospective
> > client...
> >
> > AND, we actually have seen source code with comments from the original
> > vendor along with code documenting where date routines are to be not
> > executed because they knew in 1993 that their code wasn't going to work
> > after 1999...THAT is defecive code...and should get a vendor zapped!
> >
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