>>>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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>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.

Oh, I misunderstood. So what did "BECAUSE of that" mean?

>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.

I'm pretty sure they'd have no idea what to do with expliot code and other details if I gave it to them. However, if someone did know how to shove the exploit code into a virus generator, those same customers would be pretty pissed. Thats where my conclusion comes from. My customers woudl more "appreciate" being out fishing instead of looking at the details of computer bug.