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I might not entirely agree how he stated his email, but what he is trying to do is a good thing for all open oource operating systems.

Quoted from Theo's post: We've been trying to get more Adaptec AAC RAID documentation out of
Adaptec for nearly 4 months, so that we can add RAID management (ie.
the ability to recover a RAID array without rebooting and doing it in
the BIOS) and it is incredible how much we are being dragged around.

The ability to recover disks without having to reboot is something that servers require. It does no good to people depending on those servers to be down beause a disk failed when normally, the disk should have been rebuilt while the machine was still running doing it's job. Adaptec is making it impossible for this to happen. If you can't count on your RAID hardware then hell, by all means take it out. He's right, there are alternatives.

This happened when Daren Reed altered his licese to ipf. The OpenBSD team took it out and now we have pf and pf kicks ass! Unfortunately, the OpenBSD doesn't produce hardware so all it can do is go with alternatives.

His tone was a bit unprofessional, but I guess I can understand if he's frustrated. Besides, Theo has a record for not having the greatest people skills. What else would you expect from him?

Anyway, the point is that his goals should be supported by all open source groups because this will help out all the BSD camps and the Linux camps as well. It would even help out those hobby OS's that are regularly mentioned on this site. This quest is a Good Thing(TM).