SBLive driver availability (Score 1)

I received the following response from Creative Labs:

From: Developer Support (

[e-mail])

At this time Creative is not in a position to release the materials that it has received under NDA from our chipset suppliers or the DVD consortium.

Creative is actively working on Linux drivers for our audio and graphics products, and will do what we can within our legal rights to provide drivers to the Linux community.

This is an unfortunate position that quite a few hardware vendors seem to be getting stuck in. Hopefully companies will start to see the value in releasing specifications without NDAs, as the availability of high-quality drivers and other software supporting their hardware can only improve their product sales.