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People are allowed to choose the parts they want to use. I call it voting with your wallet. Maybe FTDI will realize that people don't want to use their produc
by Vendan 12y ago
People are allowed to choose the parts they want to use. I call it voting with your wallet. Maybe FTDI will realize that people don't want to use their products when they pull stunts like this.
- rasz_pl 12y agoSo basically "we will show FTDI by CONTINUING to not use their parts at all". People affected didnt want to use FTDI parts in the first place, they wanted fly by night $2 with free shipping special.
- Vendan 12y agoNo, it's more "I could use FTDI parts(and I bet someplace like seeed would use the real thing), but if they are going to release drivers that have a kill command baked in(and we've seen that it's on purpose), I'm not gonna use them"
- rasz_pl 12y agoactually seed is one of confirmed sources of fakes :) someone had one of these http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/UartSBee-V5-p-1752.html?cPath=19_21 http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/UartSBee-V5-p-1752.html?cPa... go pid 0 Seed is a small shenzhen company, I woulndt expect them to have legit parts to begin with anyway.
- Vendan 12y agoso, yay, go with something other then FTDI, cause other companies don't seem to have the same fascination with killing clone chips. Alas, other companies actually try to make stuff cheaper and have more features.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoNo; people affected are people who bought some devices from someone who bought some devices from someone who wanted to use FTDI parts, who bought their parts from someone who bought their parts from someone who didn't want to use FTDI parts. FTDI action hurts everyone except the ones they were targetting.