So… Creative Are Getting A Bit Nasty
April 3rd, 2008 Posted in Hardware, Industry NewsOk, ok, let’s all stop the fighting and arguing for a second… Take a step back, here’s my account of what’s gone on thus far:
- Creative release drivers for vista
- Users download vista driver pack and find it to be nearly unusable in any productive way
- Users complain
- Users complain
- Users complain
- One user doesnt complain and actually uses his brain (wow, on the internet??)
- This user was “daniel_k” or Daniel Kawakami to be exact
- DK ripped apart creative’s vista driver pack, he rebuilt it, enabled the crippled features, turned on the disabled options and generally made it work!
- DK distributes new driver pack to everyone and all for nothing but the request of a voluntary donation
- Creative go all legal-law whoop-ass on DK and pull the ol’ Intellectual Property shizzam on him
- DK is forced to remove the driver pack from any and all forum posts or else get taken to court (I don’t know about you but I dont fancy being on the defense against creatives lawyers)
- Calm
- Calm before the storm
- Storm
- Internet erupts
- Users globally start to ditch Creative products
- 100’s of thousands of posts and views to creatives forums in anger
- Brings us to present day
My own view is Creative are most definately in the wrong, first they cripple the drivers in vista for no apparent reason, then they crush the efforts of free help they got from DK, then threaten him with legal action, then alienate the entire internet, lol…
If ever there was a time to keep your mouth shut Creative, it would have been about 3 days ago *clap**clap*