Because he made the hardware that people bought work with the machine they bought it for. But with the new operating system that Creative wanted people to buy new hardware for.
Creative Labs, makers of sound cards that still don't work properly with Windows Vista, doesn't want fixed versions of its broken drivers on the net.
In a message to "Daniel_K," who repaired their broken software, Creative Labs' Phil O'Shaughnessy claims that by restoring functionality to Vista drivers that are offered in Windows XP versions, he is a thief.
"By enabling our technology and IP to run on sound cards for which it was not originally offered or intended, you are in effect, stealing our goods," writes O'Shaughnessy at Creative's forums.
More links in the article. Time bring back the saying Bleeding Edge of Technology.
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