>>>>Hiya Ken:
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>>>>Sheesh. What a bozo lawsuit.....hey, I volunteer to be a witness for the defense :-)
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>>>>>VFP is the focus of one of the first suits against Microsoft over the Y2K bug. Seattle Times Reports:
Developer Sues MS Over Y2K Bug>>>
>>>Yeah, it's really the developer's fault if she didn't "SET CENTURY ON"... Maybe someone should also point her to Y2KFOX as a solution for the FPD 2.6. I wonder what the lawyer will charge the programmer once he finds out how bogus a suit he has...
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>>What makes you assume the lawyer didn't know it was bogus when he took it? .........."Ah, we'll take a shot at it and maybe M$ might throw some money at us to make us go away...."
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>The article clearly indicates that the complaint is with the lack of ROLLOVER, not SET CENTURY. Indeed there was no ROLLOVER in vfp3.
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>It's still a nuisance lawsuit, though.
Good point. If she is basing her suit on vfp3 though, then it will absolutely get thrown out since, as far as I'm aware, M$ didn't guarantee Y2K compatibility until version 5.
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