Legal Actions and Firings Over Y2K "Exaggerations?"

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By BBC News Online's Damian Carrington http://news2.thls.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_590000/590932.stm

As the world returns to work in a new millennium, the computer bug which apparently threatened chaos has caused barely any damage.

But a top Slovenian Y2K official has now lost his job after accusations that he had exaggerated the dangers. And in the US, there are unconfirmed reports of threatened legal action over the money wasted in busting the bug that did not bite.

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-- Jennifer Bunker (Salt Lake City, Utah) (Jen@bunkergroup.com), January 08, 2000


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