Creative Backs Down on Vista Driver Debacle

In the wake of last week's driver debacle, Creative has finally decided to back down for PR purposes. Modder Daniel_K, author of the offending Vista drivers, has had his posts on the Creative forums reinstated. According to Creative the move was to avoid infringing on other company's IP. "Daniel_K is incensed by Creative. 'They publicly threatened me, just to show their arrogance,' he told El Reg by email. He told us that Creative contacted him on a chat session. 'They were sarcastic, ironic and asked me if I wanted something from them, as if I were expecting something,' he wrote. 'It was my protest against them and would like to see how far it would go.'"

first post!

[Anonymous Coward]

modded illegally by the community!

Re:Good for him

[Shados]

Seriously. It is so close to the corportate equivalent of "dumb suicide" that it should deserve a Darwin Award

Re:Backing down or CYA Manuver?

[timster]

You're forgetting that some Slashdotters have been taught that there's some law requiring corporations to be evil as long as there is profit in it. After all, if it's in a documentary it must be true.

Re:Good for him

[neumayr]

Tech companies exagerate their product's capabilities for marketing reasons, more news at 11 or something.

Re:This doesn't happen with free software

[Brummund]

Hey Richard, you need to turn off DOS mode in Emacs, we're getting double linefeeds here.

Re:Backing down or CYA Manuver?

[garett_spencley]

I prefer a "always do evil" philosophy. Sure some people may get mad at you and you may get bad PR etc. but "do no evil" is boring. "Do evil" is a great way to ensure that things stay interesting.

Think about it...

Where would Slashdot be if Microsoft was not an evil monopolistic corporation ?

Where would Slashdot be if the RIAA were not suing grandmothers and college students ?

Where would Slashdot be if Jack Thompson was not suing video game manufacturers ?

Where would Slashdot be if Creative released Vista drivers that work ?

You see, by being evil you effectively bring life to the Internet. Without evilness no one would have anything to bitch about and everyone would be too busy watching porn and looking up peach cobbler recipes. FUCK THAT!

Re:Good for him

[DRAGONWEEZEL]

Haha, after re-reading that, it appears you are correct. In a slashdot 1st... I conceede I stand corrected!

Re:Backing down or CYA Manuver?

[Anonymous Coward]

Given that NVidia is getting nailed with a class action lawsuit because of handicapped drivers, I have to wonder if Creative's withdrawal is less a product of PR and more of fear that they could be put in a similar court situation.

I don't know what the nvidia lawsuit is about, maybe not enough parking spaces or ramps? You'd think though in this day and age people would take this stuff more seriously.