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Creative Vista Driver Modder Speaks Out

Posted by kdawson on from the no-good-deed-goes-unpunished dept.

hol writes sends a followup on Creative Labs shutting down the modder who made their drivers work with Vista. Wired is running daniel_k's response to the contretemps."

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  1. Naïveté by McDutchie · · Score: 0, Troll

    The only thing that amazes me more than Creative's behavior in this sorry affair is daniel_k's naïveté. Why do work for free for a commercial entity with a known track record of psychopathic behavior, especially when it's a job they should have done themselves so he was stepping on their turf? Did he honestly expect not to get screwed over? What's more, did he not realize that he was simply enabling their bad behavior by fixing the consequences of it for them?

    1. Re:Naïveté by McDutchie · · Score: 1, Troll

      He wasn't working for the company, he was working for the victims of the company's shoddy behaviour....

      That's probably what he believes, but the effect of his work is that the victims of Creative's shoddy behavior can continue to use and buy Creative's shoddy products. So working for free to fix the problems of Creative's victims is in effect tantamount to working for Creative for free.

    2. Re:Naïveté by McDutchie · · Score: 1, Troll

      I wonder what his IP rights are to his mods?

      If they are a derivative work of the original drivers, which they probably are, the answer to that question is that he probably doesn't have any because such derivative works are prohibited by the license "agreement". (IANAL. TINLA.)

  2. Well, you ARE new here! by rts008 · · Score: 0, Troll

    "I mean Fista? That doesn't even make sense. Come on!"

    Where have you been?

    Fisting(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisting) + MS Vista(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms_vista)=Fista

    Crawl back to your hole, you stupid git...you are not worthy of /.. much less worthy of vetting the used terms here.

    Have yourself castrated before you breed, then crawl back in your mom's basement and resume your LOLcats posts.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolcats)

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  3. Of course not by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Did you read the subject?

    Umm, why would I? That's not part of the comment.

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  4. Re:Obvious. by ozmanjusri · · Score: 0, Troll
    Care to point out how Microsoft have any part in this, other than releasing an operating system that Creative makes drivers for?

    The OS they released broke existing drivers in order to provide a protected data path for media companies' products. Computer users don't want DRM and shouldn't have to pay for it.

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