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To: David Eddy who wrote (987)	1/29/1998 9:20:00 PM
From: sibe	Read Replies (2) of 9818

IBM may be sued for causing the Y2k problem. You wrote, "On what basis? If I make a hammer & you buy it & then kill your mother with it, am I libel for having manufactured that hammer? We kill 40,000+ people year-in & year-out with cars (& alcohol)... I haven't heard of Detroit needing to defend itself as maker of murder weapons." If you knowingly sold me a defective hammer and that caused a problem, I may have a case. But I guess that's what the lawyers will be arguing. People also voluntarily smoke, but the tobacco companies are now paying for the health problems and deaths.

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