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AOL gets bit by the bug

The bigger they come, the harder they fall--and in the world of e-commerce, they don't get much bigger than AOL. Which makes it proportionately exciting to see just how hard the ISP company will be hit by the class-action lawsuit filed several days ago. So what's put the country's thousands of AOL subscribers in such a snit? One particular bug that screws up a user's ability to access non-AOL internet service providers--and, lawyers allege, was deliberately concealed in the software's 5.0 version. In theory, the settlement could approach the $2 billion mark--to learn more about the story and "the upgrade of death," click on the link above.

Thu, 03 Feb 2000 02:39:05 -0800