
When the next millenium rolls along, the computers will go bananas. It would cost the US business close to 600 billion to teach the computers to deal with an year which ends in three zeros. There are also a host of legal problems which the businesses will face. A group of lawyers have set up a some pages on year2000.com which deal with the legal issues.
For instance there will be potential breach of contract suits and customer frauds together. When a company gives up its software to a vendor for fixing it, there could be cases of copyright violations as well. The site has lists of the top ten problems which a company will have to deal with.