I would imagine that GOG don't even know about the 4GB+ RAM compatibility issue, since the game runs with that amount of memory, albeit slowly. However, you would think such a glaring bug with the game would be fixed when the original

has had various issues addressed such as widescreen support. I mean,

is supposed to be a newer game than

, yet they don't seem willing to fix something that's been talked about for a while now. More and more people are upgrading to 64-bit operating systems and taking advantage of greater amounts of RAM.
The workaround isn't that painless, and it was very lucky that someone discovered it.
Edit: And... yeah... a fix for the just-as-obvious inventory bug in Vista \ Windows 7 wouldn't go amiss.