I'd bet a dollar to a donut that LSI, Promise, 3ware, and other vendors of RAID hardware also have NDA agreements which would prevent those companies from making every single internal document available to the public.
<RANT>
Nobody ever asked they make 'every single internal document available to
the public'. That is your own strawman. People do ask, however, that
Adaptec makes enough documentation available to know when what commands
to set to the chipset, and when to expect what to be returned. Especially if
they themselves have not solved all bugs
I didn't create a strawman argument, you can go read what what was said yourself.
Please refer to this exchange between Theo and Scott in Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, which ended with:
"No, I can't now and never could before give out docs, but I've always been
happy to help, review code, point out bugs, etc."
Why is it that Scott cannot release the docs being referred to here? I'll give you a hint: what is a three-letter word which limits an employee from releasing information proprietary to his current or former employer?
Theo demanded information from Adaptec and from Scott. He got told no.
[ At least Theo seems to understand the situation, or to use his own words:
"Noone thought to talk to you. You are, I am sure, under a non-disclosure agreement with Adaptec, and I am sure you would therefore not give us documentation. We are quite used to FreeBSD and Linux people signing NDA's by now...." ]
-- -Chuck
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