Creative demonstrates complete lack of vision, punishes fan

Creative, makers of the ubiquitous Soundblaster line of video cards recently demonstrated an outstanding lack of vision.

Hacker (in the good, loves to create stuff sense) Daniel Kawakami, pissed off that his awesome Soundblaster card just didn’t work right in Windows Vista, took it upon himself to rectify the situation. On his own time, purely for the love of hackery and technology, he ripped apart the standard drivers for the Soundblaster card, found out what wasn’t working right, fixed them and released them. Thanks to Daniel’s passion, Creative Soundblaster users everywhere would be able to at last make full use of their hardware under MIcroosft’s newest operating system.

So, what did Creative do? Did they stand back and applaud Daniel? Did they squeal with delight that they’d found someone so passionate about their own products that he had done what their entire engineering department had not managed to get around to? Did they offer the guy a job? Nope. Instead, they went on the forums where Daniel released his work, and then publicly berated him and threatened him.

Nice job Creative – way to go protecting your assets and patents. Great job preventing the people that spent their hard earned cash on your piles of silicon crap from actually being able to use them.

(…from a story found on Engadget)

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