Who shall be answerable for software apocalypse? Millenium-related computing glitches will bring judgment day for vendors and users
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The challenge that many businesses will face converting computer systems and software to accept dates with the year 2000 has legal consequences as well as technical consequences. Some doomsayers have predicted that correcting computer systems that accept only two-digit figures as years will cost as much as $600 billion globally. Buyers and licensees may wish to claim that conversion costs should be covered under warranty. If third-party consultants are used to correct the problem, licensees may be subject to trade secret liability for altering the program.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1996
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Microsoft's ambitions have expanded from operating systems to software and now appear poised to include the banking industry and other building blocks of the 21st-century economy. The company is properly forward-looking, but observers are just as wise to be cautious, and make Microsoft move with care. Antitrust interest in Microsoft continues despite the abandonment of Intuit. Without that interest, or even with it, Microsoft could become the next Rockefeller, but it faces legal obstacles previously unknown.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1995
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Pacific-Rim piracy of programs afflicts publishers
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Asian countries lead the world in software piracy rates because progress in getting legal recognition for software as intellectual property has not been matched by enforcement or by public understanding. US pressure has led some countries, notably China, to implement some enforcement, but it typically affects only retailers, not the manufacturers or distributers who often have strong ties to local government officials. Thailand, India, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan are among the top offenders.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1995
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