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[News] Where Creative Labs and Linux Stand

Creative Tries Again At Linux Drivers

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| Months went by after that release with no signs of another beta, but back in 
| February of this year, 4Front Technologies had announced an update to the 
| Open Sound System (OSS) with initial support for the X-Fi series. Unlike 
| support for some of the other sound cards on the market, the X-Fi support in  
| its (sbxfi) driver wasn't reverse-engineered but Creative Labs had provided 
| some source-code and header files to 4Front Technologies (Open-Source 
| Creative X-Fi Support). These code files though had confidential markings, 
| but two days later it was found out that this was legal and Creative Labs is 
| interacting with both the OSS and ALSA projects. They had finally joined the 
| open-source bandwagon.        
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=creative_take_2&num=1


Recent: 

Creative climbs down over home brew Vista drivers

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| Posting a forum message on its website last weekend, Creative threatened 
| Daniel_K with legal action, accusing him of infringing its intellectual 
| property. The company removed forum posts from the developer containing links 
| to his work.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| Daniel_K is incensed by Creative. "They publicly threatened me, just to show 
| their arrogance," he told El Reg by email. 
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/04/creative_restores_home_brew_vista_driver_links/


Creative Labs : Product Boards : Sound Blaster : Message to Daniel_K

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| [...]
| 
| To be clear, we are asking you to respect our legal rights in this matter and 
| cease all further unauthorized distribution of our technology and IP.  In 
| addition we request that you observe our forum rules and respect our right to 
| enforce those rules.  If you are in any doubt as to what we would consider 
| unacceptable then please request clarification through one of our forum 
| moderators before posting.     
| 
| Phil O'Shaughnessy
| VP Corporate Communications
| Creative Labs Inc.
| 
| [...]
| 
| My god, you guys got some balls on you, either that or you'r all bordeline 
| mad. 
| 
| He offered a service you guys cant/wont, and in so madde a lot og YOUR 
| customers happy about their product again. 
| 
| Now you wanna whipe him out and keep him silent by threatning about legal 
| actions. 
| 
| This is a beyond retarded, shame on you, shame on you. 
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http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&thread.id=116332&view=by_date_ascending&page=1


Related:

Creative Joining The Open Bandwagon

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| It's official, Creative Labs is joining the open specification/code bandwagon 
| for the X-Fi series. Earlier this week we shared that through the Open Sound 
| System there is now open-source support for the Sound Blaster X-Fi.   
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjMyMw


Why Vista sounds worse

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| Changes to how the latest version of Windows handles audio playback has 
| caused unexpected quality issues for musicians and consumers alike, reports 
| Tim Anderson  
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/31/microsoft.technology


Audio in Linux is awesome

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| I can’t wait for PulseAudio. I’m sure that will make all of this even easier.
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http://darkness.codefu.org/wordpress/2007/12/15/292

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