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Creative Backs Down on Vista Driver Debacle
In the wake of last week's driver debacle, Creative has finally decided to back down for PR purposes. Modder Daniel_K, author of the offending Vista drivers, has had his posts on the Creative forums reinstated. According to Creative the move was to avoid infringing on other company's IP. "Daniel_K is incensed by Creative. 'They publicly threatened me, just to show their arrogance,' he told El Reg by email. He told us that Creative contacted him on a chat session. 'They were sarcastic, ironic and asked me if I wanted something from them, as if I were expecting something,' he wrote. 'It was my protest against them and would like to see how far it would go.'"
modded illegally by the community!
Seriously. It is so close to the corportate equivalent of "dumb suicide" that it should deserve a Darwin Award
You're forgetting that some Slashdotters have been taught that there's some law requiring corporations to be evil as long as there is profit in it. After all, if it's in a documentary it must be true.
I have seen the future, and it is inconvenient.
Tech companies exagerate their product's capabilities for marketing reasons, more news at 11 or something.
Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion. -Francis Bacon
Hey Richard, you need to turn off DOS mode in Emacs, we're getting double linefeeds here.
I prefer a "always do evil" philosophy. Sure some people may get mad at you and you may get bad PR etc. but "do no evil" is boring. "Do evil" is a great way to ensure that things stay interesting.
Think about it...
Where would Slashdot be if Microsoft was not an evil monopolistic corporation ?
Where would Slashdot be if the RIAA were not suing grandmothers and college students ?
Where would Slashdot be if Jack Thompson was not suing video game manufacturers ?
Where would Slashdot be if Creative released Vista drivers that work ?
You see, by being evil you effectively bring life to the Internet. Without evilness no one would have anything to bitch about and everyone would be too busy watching porn and looking up peach cobbler recipes. FUCK THAT!
Haha, after re-reading that, it appears you are correct. In a slashdot 1st... I conceede I stand corrected!
How much is your data worth? Back it up now.