

Or they have other issues in play that make it bad for THEIR business. It's their IP and they may have plans for it that frankly they don't care to tell anyone about. Proclaiming? Um it's their company, their hardware and their software, so yes it is their "sacred right" to do whatever they want to do with it.

Read between the lines, and O'Shaughnessy is proclaiming that his company has the sacred right to enable and disable features in-driver even when the sound card's hardware is perfectly capable of performing the tasks at hand.
