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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (5560)	4/18/1999 8:44:00 PM
From: J.L. Turner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Cheeky, The report that I posted on the Brits,was written in response to a govt report on 15 companies that the Brits are monitoring for compliance.Where's the hype? "COMPANIES at the Department of Trade and Industry's showcase Bug Park are so far from beating the millennium bug that they are being publicly warned they cannot claim to have shown "due diligence" if a client were to sue them over mishaps in the new year, writes Sean Hargrave. The 15 Bug Park companies, which are regularly inspected by the government to monitor progress, are criticised in a new report by Action 2000, the government taskforce." Seems to me that the Brits are being responsible and are telling companies that if they don't exert effort they can be sued. J.L.T.

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (5560)	4/19/1999 8:10:00 AM
From: Christine Traut	Respond to of 9818

Cheeky: Best of luck on whatever you need to spend your energies on these days. Hope you remain a lurker. If you have been taking on any personal responsibility for keeping the press or public 'rational' on Y2K - no wonder you're frustrated. I learned a long time ago that trying to reason with emotions is a no win game. Remember the spectacle of Andy Grove saying 'of course, the Pentium has flaws, everything has flaws' and then watching the public outcry. I found it kind of funny. Like watching Mr. Spock try to reason with people at a nuke protest rally. The software industry could reassure people. By actions. By taking responsibility for cleaning up as much of their code as possible. Giving it away for free. Perhaps even offering assistance to people who have no idea how to apply a software patch. Just as a beginning. But I don't see that happening very often. The 'compliant still means you have to patch it - don't you read the fine print stupid?' approach of Microsoft is only going to make everyone more distrustful. So, if people are scared, I don't have the heart to tell them that they are the ones causing any panic problem. Christine