All very well and good, but another group financially screwed were the new purchasers like myself. I've just written the following comment on the HW blog. Will it be published?

"So: for those of us who purchased 4.0 trusting it was stable and ready, how do you propose to compensate now that you're now downgrading it to a beta?

I (and others, no doubt) are well beyond the 30 days we're guaranteed a refund, but as you ought to understand, having this furor explode in our faces resulted in us sitting back and ... waiting. At the very least you should extend our money-back guarantee to be 30 days from when you publish a STABLE version of 4.x.

Otherwise? Good luck to you. Acknowledge where your weaknesses lie (hint: communication?!) and hire to compensate."

Fingers crossed, big time.