Article: Year 2000 lawsuits. (Norton AntiVirus 2.0 noncompliant, Symantec sued) (Company Business and Marketing)

COBOL programmers entrenched in line-by-line rewrites of code aren't the only ones racing toward Year 2000 (Y2K) compliance. Major software companies are also making sure their developer tools are compliant-and they don't have until January 1, 2000, because lawsuits have already been filed.

The law firm Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes, and Lerach has filed a class action suit against Symantec on behalf of users of Norton AntiVirus 2.0 software. The suit is based on the complaint that version 2.0, released in 1996, isn't Year 2000 compliant and users wanting the Y2K compliant version 4.0 (there was no version 3.0) must pay for the upgrade. The fear is that the Norton ...

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