Jens Link <li...@quux.de> writes: > Richard A Steenbergen <r...@e-gerbil.net> writes: > >> Ironically enough the manuals themselves are accessable without a login, >> but the list of manuals is not. > > Outch. Personally I don't like when company's hides documentation or > require me to register (or even get a support contract) to read the > documentation.
Cannot agree more. It's a major drawback even with a support contract. I often use Google to search for particular features, bugs, workarounds or whatever, limiting the scope to site:somevendor.com. This naturally doesn't work with those who hide their docs. And the site internal search engines are usually a bad joke at best. Regarding Foundry, I remember they used to have public docs several years ago. But all of a sudden it was closed. Around 2003 maybe? Nowadays, Huawei is on top of my "oh i hate that web site" list. No useful public content whatsoever. Don't understand why they even bother putting up a web server. I appreciate that there still are serious vendors like Cisco and Juniper who don't mind making their docs public. Thanks guys! Bjørn
