____/ Linonut on Thursday 05 July 2007 22:35 : \____
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Ian Hilliard belched out this bit o' wisdom:
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> Creative ALchemy (Audigy Edition)
>>>
>>
http://www.buy.soundblaster.com/_creativelabsstore/cgi-bin/pd.cgi?frompage=category&page=product_detail&fromcategory=%20Software&category=Software&pid=F2222X767VHL73GYR38
>>>
>>> 10 dollars for a driver... only if you use Windows Vista.
>>
>> Who said that Vista hasn't increased incomes ;-)
>
> Wow. I'd have thought they'd let you download the driver for free.
Someone mentioned this a couple of months ago, but it's only now that I see it
for real. Apparently their teams have struggled and spent a lot of money
writing drivers for the beast. It came at the expense of Linux drivers in this
one particular case, IIRC. The same actually goes to ATI/AMD Linux drivers.
Microsoft had companies stressed and distracted, which hurt Linux.
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