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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. 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.)