Bricked chips cease to work on linux and osx where the drivers aren't provided from ftdi.
There are multiple makers of fake ftdi chips; most fakes work well, same not.
The final customer has no way to know if the chip he buy is legit or not, even the marks on the chips can vary a lot.
Often even builder inplementing ftdi on their equipment can have no idea from where the chips come form.
Before the bricking fake issue, the only way to discover a fake that work fine was to dismantel the chip and observe with electronic microscope, so you can't compare with fake moneys or goodies.
This is their biggest mistake: Ftdi did never provided a tool or a method to detect fakes.
Ftdi drivers never told users that the chip that was installed in their equipment was a fake, they just bricked it. I can understand if they took another approach like telling "you're using a fake chip, we gave you 30 day for fix it then the driver will cease to wok every 10 minutes".
Eula can't apply at all even if the laws allow their action; windows update deployment are silent so no you can't read them unless they're already installed.
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Bricked chips cease to work on linux and osx where the drivers aren't provided from ftdi.
There are multiple makers of fake ftdi chips; most fakes work well, same not.
The final customer has no way to know if the chip he buy is legit or not, even the marks on the chips can vary a lot.
Often even builder inplementing ftdi on their equipment can have no idea from where the chips come form.
Before the bricking fake issue, the only way to discover a fake that work fine was to dismantel the chip and observe with electronic microscope, so you can't compare with fake moneys or goodies.
This is their biggest mistake: Ftdi did never provided a tool or a method to detect fakes.
Ftdi drivers never told users that the chip that was installed in their equipment was a fake, they just bricked it.
I can understand if they took another approach like telling "you're using a fake chip, we gave you 30 day for fix it then the driver will cease to wok every 10 minutes".
Eula can't apply at all even if the laws allow their action; windows update deployment are silent so no you can't read them unless they're already installed.
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