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VFP Focus of Y2K Lawsuit
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Visual FoxPro
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>>>>Hiya Ken:
>>>>
>>>>Sheesh. What a bozo lawsuit.....hey, I volunteer to be a witness for the defense :-)
>>>>
>>>>>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
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>>>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...
>>
>>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...."
>
>The article clearly indicates that the complaint is with the lack of ROLLOVER, not SET CENTURY. Indeed there was no ROLLOVER in vfp3.
>
>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.
Colin Magee
Team Leader, Systems Development
Metroland Media Group Ltd.
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

cmagee@metroland.com

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