[Per_Bothner]

The complaint was about having to sign up to (register for) yet-another website.

[xigoi]

Which site requires you to sign up in order to read documentation?

[DaiPlusPlus]

It's certainly less common now, but prior to 2015 it was common for "legacy" vendors (y'know... the paranoid and posessive types, like ProgressDB...) - or just those embarassed about the state of their products compared to the rest of the industry: they'll hide their KB articles, bug-reports and workarounds, and more besides) behind a registration-wall, or even worse: only grant you access if you have a current support contract with them.

[0xEFF]

RedHat has traditionally.

[acutesoftware]

Oracle requires you to login to get access to most support documents now.