In article <47f0dac3$1@news.povray.org>, voi### [at] devnull says...
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Mmm, interesting.
> 
> Of course, technically it's Creative's product and if they don't want it
 
> to be able to do X, they can legally do that. But given that their 
> game's been rumbled, I would say that's be rather stupid to try to stick
 
> to this stretagy now... But hey, what do I know about running a vast 
> stunningly successful multinational conglomerate?
> 
Actually, its questionable if that is even true. Law, never mind what 
the EULA might say, states that modification to support interoperability 
**is** legal. They own EULA implies that its only illegal to use/modify 
their drivers for purposes "other than intended", but their own 
advertisements, packaging, etc., all imply, very clearly, that the cards 
are "intended" to provide the functionality, and they don't say, 
"Partial Vista compatibility.", or, "Some features not available in all 
operating systems." What he did, strictly speaking, isn't necessarily 
illegal, by even Creative's own definition, but they themselves could be 
considered to be in violation of the same contract, not to mention false 
advertising.

-- 
void main () {

    if version = "Vista" {
      call slow_by_half();
      call DRM_everything();
    }
    call functional_code();
  }
  else
    call crash_windows();
}

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