Filed under: Peripherals, Portable Audio

Chances are that whether you do your duties on Vista and rely on one of Creative’s sound cards to get your dance on, you may have become frustrated by the firm’s inability to offer up a driver package that lived up to those loosed for Windows XP. ‘Course, whether that rings a bell, you’re probably not too concerned — you know, thanks to those unofficial (but totally functional) drivers brought to you by Daniel_K. Unfortunately for users suddenly excited to gain some additional utility from their device, Creative has hopped on the offensive and is forbidding said compiler

from distributing the firm’s technology / IP (not to mention collecting donations), and it’s plus scouring the ‘net to remove other urls to the software. Granted, we fully understand Creative’s right to disallow the distribution of untested, potentially harmful third-party drivers, but c’mon, how about redirecting the energy you’re spending on shutting that guy down to actually developing drivers that your customers are demanding?

[Via Slashdot, thanks to everyone who sent that in]

 

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Original post by Darren Murph