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Creative Has Lost its Way[ Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#1)
by srynas on Fri Apr 11, 2008 at 05:44:38 AM PDT

The aggrandizement of so-called intellectual property by content producers has gone beyond absurd. If you plan to work on your car engine to improve it, would Ford or Chevy have a "right", based on intellectual property, to stop you from working on it?

Once a product is sold to the consumer, the consumer obtains certain rights. Not only that but the concept of reverse engineering needs to be protected. The content producers have been stealing these rights through FUD, by buying favorable legislation, and EULAs.

The Register had this quote from Creative: "The huge task of developing driver updates to accommodate the many changes in the Vista operating system and the extensive testing required, including the lengthy Vista certification requirements for audio, makes it very difficult for Creative to develop updates for all past products."

Whenever a company makes a statement, such as the one above, it is an indication that the company is now being run as a "cash-cow" business by managers who have lost the entrepreneurial spirit. To put it another way, the company is no longer interested in innovation or serving its customers.

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