> If the vendor is supporting the driver, and working with the community, 
> then one would hope that they would also fix the driver as bug reports 
> come in about it ...

That's too many ifs to be realworld-compatible.

And actually the only vendors I can think of which are working with the
community actually provide documentation, if only because it is simpler
for them to spend time on documentation than on code for N different
systems.

Miod