On 8/31/06, Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Vendors should release documentation, not write drivers.
In a perfect world, they all would ... this is not a perfect world, it is
one dominated by Linux or Microsoft ... I use Adaptec drivers on 3 of my
servers, because, in 4.x, they were rock solid ... in 6.x, they have a
problem ... I'd like to be able to go out and upgrade those servers to a
vendor that provides "documentation", but its a cost I can't afford at
funny. sounds to me like someone could fix the bugs if they had documentation.
the sad part is you refuse to learn. you had a driver that used to
work and you didn't care that no docs meant you couldn't maintain it.
what happened? you got burned. so now you want a new driver that
works, but you don't care about getting the docs to assure that it
will still work later. i look forward to reading an identical email
in 2 years with s/6/8/ and s/4/6/.
if your only interest is a driver that works today, you will be reamed
on the upgrade every time. *every* time.
drivers stop working. documentation doesn't.
