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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (820)	8/11/1998 4:22:00 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1361

I am not much into debating this boring subject anymore. Oh, darn, was there a debate on this thread? Must have missed it (g). As for who to blame for Y2K, I blame Bill Wexler. At first I didn't want to blame him, but the more I checked into things, the more I realized there's absolutely no proof he didn't have anything to do with it. - Jeff

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (820)	8/11/1998 10:14:00 PM
From: Investor-ex!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1361

Sire, Note that it is commonly accepted practice in most failed software projects to "blame the innocents", i.e., the programmers. Management, including project management, and especially upper management, is, was, and always will be mainly responsible for overlooking this "missing requirement", which they have been repeatedly warned about from lower levels for years. This is a well-documented fact. Over the years, management's response has invariably been something in the order of, "don't bother me with anything that costs money this quarter, especially something so labor intensive, yet with no apparent, immediate payback". I guess they were worried about their stock options...