As you may have read in this article, Creative Labs have asked a programmer who goes by the handle “Daniel_K” on their forums to remove a thread in which he posted his own software that make features on their older Sound Blaster Audigy cards available under Windows Vista (they work under earlier versions of Windows, [...]
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When driver incompatibilities with Windows Vista caused Creative Labs’ Audigy series of sound cards to lose some of their functionality, one “Daniel_K” stepped up and wrote some workaround software that restored those missing features. You’d think that this act — essentially crowdsourcing at its best — would be applauded by the fine folks at Creative. You be wrong.
Read on for more about how Creative did not let a good deed go unpunished.