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I have a problem with it, I'm not even the owner![ Parent ] (none / 0) (#14)
by kamnet on Sat Apr 12, 2008 at 04:24:42 AM PDT

The problem I have with the idea of "donation" in this case is that this guy DID NO ORIGINAL WORK of his own to merit donation, sales or any exchange of money. He simply took Creative's drivers and re-enabled what was disabled.

Had he properly reverse engineered the drivers and released his own, original, clean code, then there would be nothing Creative could do, He then could charge as much money as he wanted to, and no BS for "donations" for better hardware. And let me think about that for a moment -- why does he need better hardware when he already clearly had more than adequate hardware to do the job for THIS project. It  didn't take better hardware to resolve the issues with this driver, it took somebody competent enough and smart enough to dissect the driver and look into the code. That's not a hardware issue.

That said, he could have been in the right by releasing the corrected Creative code and declaring that he can do so under the First Amendment, making it a free speech issue of Creative tried to shut him down on that. I have my doubts if Creative would have tried to have done that, though.  

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