Fix to crippled Vista drivers "stealing" -[->] 2008-04-01 15:52 Snowmit
Snowmit writes "Thought you might be interested in this story about Creative Labs (who make the SoundBlaster audio cards). It seems that they intentionally left off some features of their hardware on Windows Vista and then a enterprising consumer figured out how to fix the crippled software.
Creative was not impressed.
"The difference in this case is that we own the rights to the materials that you are distributing," O'Shaughnessy wrote. "By enabling our technology and IP to run on sound cards for which it was not originally offered or intended, you are in effect, stealing our goods." ...
"If we choose to develop and provide host-based processing features with certain sound cards and not others, that is a business decision that only we have the right to make," wrote O'Shaughnessy.
Crazy stuff. In this blog posting Wired reprints an email from Daniel_K explaining how he made the improved drivers."
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/04/daniel_k-who-fi.html
"The difference in this case is that we own the rights to the materials that you are distributing," O'Shaughnessy wrote. "By enabling our technology and IP to run on sound cards for which it was not originally offered or intended, you are in effect, stealing our goods."
Crazy stuff. In this blog posting Wired reprints an email from Daniel_K explaining how he made the improved drivers."
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/04/daniel_k-who-fi.html
