Not much point

Not much point

Arguing without the facts is just as bad as ad hominem attacks.

Perhaps if you looked at the structure of the actual set of NDA's that this is based on you'd have some better arguments? They're published by the Linux Foundation, who found a set of lawyers to help craft them. The general programme is here:

http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/NDA_program

The actual legal docs are at the bottom of the page. The relevant sections to this current thread are:

Section 2A "no Open Source Product shall contain any of the Contributor's confidential information except to the extent required in order to effect the purposes". This somewhat opaque legalese means that any information in the confidential doc that's needed to actually program the device may be incorporated into the resulting driver or otherwise published. i.e. register definitions, APIs, the lot can move directly into the public domain via documentation within the actual written driver.

Section 2B is a patent licence for any and all patents the contributing company happens to hold in the technology needed to drive the device.

Section 7 limits the absolute term of confidentiality to five years.

This seems to be about as transparent as it can be and true to the principles of Open Source: all information needed actually to program the device can become public domain. Any other embellishments in the docs that usually cause lawyers to insist on redacting them before they're released (like slanderous aspersions on the competition or misguided marketing plans) can remain confidential.