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1 Oct 2024 09:24:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Creative flub..  
From: scott
Date: 31 Mar 2008 01:42:00
Message: <47f087b8@news.povray.org>
> Basically, one guy figured out that Creative Labs has been lying about
> incompatibility between some cards and Vista, that they could fix it
> over night, if they wanted to, and that they haven't even attempted to
> put out drivers that work right for the latest cards, all with the
> apparent purpose of forcing people to upgrade to the next card, which
> *will* be full Vista supported. The guy that figured this out patched
> the existing drivers so they do work,

Number 1 rule of making artificial differences between your products: make 
sure it's impossible or very difficult for anyone to "upgrade" by 
themselves.


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