>>>I would be extremely surprised if anyone answered other than full disclosure.
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>>Consider yourself surprised :-)
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>>FWIW, we write software that alot of people used. If someone reported a bug to us that said one of our calculations was off, thats something we want to fix, not something we want to be critized for.
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>>If there is a security bug in IIS, if I were MS, I'd rather fix the bug and release patch instead of creating a Code Red scenario every 2 weeks. And, as a user of Windows and IIS, I'm glad we don't have a code red every two weeks.
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>Great point.
The IIS issue may be a great point, but VFP ain't IIS and there are no CodeRed-like worries with VFP!
As to the other point, Fox Software didn't suffer any ill effects from making its bug list public. In fact I bet that that very fact attracted users rather than deter them.
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