On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 10:40:01AM -0700, Spruell, Darren-Perot wrote: > Like, what docs does a vendor engineering division give to the developers > who write the drivers internally? They don't give them bad docs. They give > them functional, useful docs. Does it need to be stated that any project > wanting to compose useful support for the same hardware shouldn't get the > same level of docs?
Sorry, but that's the core fallacy in your argument. In many cases, there are no "functional, useful docs". They just don't exist. Certainly this is a problem in itself.