Argh. I downloaded the EN-GB version from the proper site, but after installing it said thank you for installing "firefox 3 (release candidate)". It spent ages failing to connect to their server to check for add-on updates. And it crashed within half an hour of use! I can't even remember the last time FF2 crashed on me, and I routinely open 30+ tabs. A sad day for me. I had been so excited. :( I wonder if I can downgrade back to FF2...

While I agree that Creative Labs are being really stupid here, there seems to be some confusion over what Daniel K actually did. Creative seem to be saying that he took drivers that provided some features and modified those drivers to work on cards that never provided those features. I'd guess that's vaguely analagous to taking a DVD-Writer with a bundled copy of Nero along with its drivers, and making Nero work with another DVD-Writer that was not bundled with Nero. Whoever made the DVD-Writer would legitimately complain that they hadn't licensed Nero for that DVD-Writer, and so copying it is theft, and condoning it could get them into trouble with whoever makes Nero.

Is that in fact what he did? Would everyone have been happy if he'd simply modified the drivers to work with Vista, but to provide no features that the cards did not originally have? (Or at least, if he did provide any new features, he would have to have written them himself and not just copied them from the other drivers.)