Yes it is hard to tell, I believe that is the aim of people in the
counterfeiting business, if it was easy to tell they would not get very
far. I do however believe that FTDI has the right to protect their
intellectual property. I don't believe they are in the business of
enabling counterfeiters. Let the counterfeiters provide their own
drivers. If you think this is harsh it is no worse than being passed
counterfeit money, when that happens no one reimburses you for the
phoney money, I know I have been there, but fortunately it was only $10.
Paul.
On 2014-10-23 11:05 PM, paul swed wrote:
Umm I think its profoundly hard to know one way or another what chip you
have in a widget. This is pretty insane actually.
I buy products that I believe are legit no way to know just as if the cpu
in my acer or emachines not legal. Heck I have no idea.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Bill Dailey <docdai...@gmail.com> wrote:
Well..if they didn't properly license the technology... They should be
disabled.
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On Oct 23, 2014, at 8:45 PM, Mark Sims <hol...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Happened to a friend of mine. All his Arduino stuff died. This could
be the reason:
http://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/ftdi-driver-kills-fake-ftdi-ft232
Short story: FTDI released a new version of their USB driver (via
Windows automatic updates no less) that bricks other vendor's compatible
versions of their interface chip. They also updated their license file to
indicate that this may happen... except you never get a chance to decline
the new license with automatic driver updates. I can just hear the class
action lawyers drooling...
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