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>>The list of problems was miles long yet, despite that (and I maintain BECAUSE of that) people continued to buy FP in droves and droves.
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>Are you saying that because there were problems with FP and they were pulic knoweldge people bought FP? What premise lead you to that conlusion?

No. . . I'm saying that developers appreciated being able to go to a single source to check whether the problem they were experiencing was a know issue, whether it was fixed in a patch release, or if there was a workaround.
It would be real simple for VFp to have the same thing today, but it doesn't. Hell, even (I'll say 99%of) the bugs reported and acknowledged right here on UT haven't made it to the KB yet!!!!

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>>It should never be considered a problem to be upfront with your customers and potential customers. My opinion is that to use any excuse to do otherwise is simply a cop-out, likely covering up other deficiencies.
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>Once again, whats your reasoning here? I'm not advocating that you lie to the customer, but my internal problems are just that, my internal problems.

Well as I said above, developers appreciate being able to learn of any/all problems that exist in their development platform of choice. Pretending there are few/no problems does no one any good whatsoever.
As for your own software, I'm quite sure that its users would appreciate knowing of problems in it too, so that they can avoid banging their collective heads against wall fruitlessly or so they can avoid specific functions until a reported fix is made available.