The solution is for the infringing manufacturer to write their own
driver that tests for one of their chips and then gives the chip a
valid legal ID of their own. This is what they should have done
in the first place.
On 10/23/2014 07:05 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 <[email protected]> wrote:
Well..if they didn't properly license the technology... They should be
disabled.
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 23, 2014, at 8:45 PM, Mark Sims <[email protected]> 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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