![]() ![]() “My God, you guys got some balls on you,” wrote a poster nicknamed TrooperTom. “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.”Īll hell broke loose, but not before the very first response calmly summed up the collective thoughts of dozens of fans. “The difference in this case is that we own the rights to the materials that you are distributing,” O’Shaughnessy wrote. In the letter, addressed to Daniel_K directly, he accused him of stealing and told him to cease distribution of the upgraded software. In doing so, he attracted the attention of Creative’s vice president of corporate communications, Phil O’Shaughnessy, who posted a warning to its official forums on Friday. Our hero is fan developer Daniel_K, who fixed Creative’s gimped software and made the modified package available to other users. The alleged villain of the piece is Creative, which advertises its add-in PC sound cards as Vista compatible, despite offering only limited functionality under that platform in its Vista drivers. ![]() It’s the denouement of a short, fiery saga. The forum thread titles say it all: a full-scale customer revolt among buyers of Creative Labs’ sound cards, complete with boycott demands, online petitions and wild threats of class-action lawsuits. ![]()
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