The buyers can't do much about it, except file class action suits. can do whatever they want to the product. marketing sh*t ?.wonder why user have to "pay" for a broken driver? can someone sue them for "selling snake oil"?. The rest of Kawakami's e-mail follows, verbatim, after the jump.įyi, it seems like they are "purposely" creating fark up driver to "push" people go for newer card and upgrade. After tolerating the distribution of his unofficial drivers for a time, Creative's vice president of corporate communications, Phil O'Shaughnessy, ultimately asked him to stop, and accused him of " stealing their goods." O'Shaughnessy also wrote that whether or not it cripples its Vista drivers is a "business decision that only we have the right to make." Kawakami's expertise allowed him to enable advanced features in sound cards that Creative advertised as Vista-compatible, but which did not perform as well under that operating system as they do under Windows XP. ![]() ![]() "I'm NOT a cracker, a hacker, just an enthusiast modder with basic assembly knowledge and very persistent." "My name is Daniel Kawakami and I'm Brazilian," he writes. Daniel_K, Who Fixed Creative's Broken Vista Drivers, Speaks Out By Rob Beschizza Ap| 11:13:33 AMCategories: Audioĭaniel_K, the Creative Labs fan who fixed the company's broken Vista sound card drivers only to be threatened by the corporate brass, just e-mailed with his side of the story.
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