Usually, computer people have a negative attitude towards lawyers. The number may hide the date, June 2nd, when In-tell discovered the bug themselves. Well there's more behind this affair than meets the eye. It was the first time in history that the consumership forced a megacorporation to change its policy to meet their true needs. This incidents establishes new rules in the relationship between consumers and megacorporations.
Consumers are no longer powerless, and megacorporations are no longer allmighty.
Other corporations have already seen this new trend, and gave up past arrogant attitudes. For instance, Diamond now supplies programming information for their video cards. This new relationship will not be limited to the commerce, but spread to politics too. We'll see more and more net-petitions. The new communication media will give the people more power.