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Re:FTDI driver kills fake FTDI FT232s by mariuolo on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @04:49PM (#8495027)
> Iterate until the counterfeit chips are indistinguishable from the real thing via software.

Will they still cost less?

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Re:FTDI driver kills fake FTDI FT232s by TheLoneWolfling on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @08:55PM (#8496158)
Probably
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Re:FTDI driver kills fake FTDI FT232s by jessaustin on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @10:24PM (#8496418)
But... innovation!

Seriously, though, this just looks like extracting economic rents from the fact that their vendor ids come pre-installed in certain OSes.

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