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Yep. So the solution is to boycott ftdi.
by deelowe 11y ago
Yep. So the solution is to boycott ftdi.
- st3v3r 11y agoSo basically, you feel that no one should respect your IP either.
- deelowe 11y agoNo. I'm worried that a supply chain screw up upstream is going to create unbounded liabilities for our company. If FTDI provided a mechanism to prevent this, I'd have no issue with it. We WANT to use genuine FTDI parts, but have no way to be sure other than accepting this risk that FTDI has created out of thin air. That's a risk that we simply can't take.
- kefka 11y agoWell, yes. Or at least until they shape up and no longer introduce an unknown failure mode to all products using those chips. The cost for a company to use those chips are too great now. And that result is purely FTDI's response. They could have taken other avenues: Windows Syslog, GUI messages, warnings. Instead they chose to do a path that we plebes would have been arrested and charged with the CFAA for doing (vandalizing hardware over a network).