Jag: While I have to agree with you, to a point, I don't agree with you that most longs thought the original model was the cat's meow. Original or 7th edition, the KDS could play a major role in recycling, energy, or various other industries. You seem to want to blame the longs for the failures in the FASC story, I believe it is management that has failed us so far.
Management were the ones who made the claims of what the KDS could do, and they still make those same claims. If it can, it is an awesome machine with very poor salesmen and businessmen running and working for the company. If it can't do as claimed, they are at best liars, and I would say criminal.