Comment by Nexxxeh
2 months ago
They were also a plague because they introduced uncertainty and had spread and contaminated devices across a wide range of devices. Silently counterfeited devices are not OK.
2 months ago
They were also a plague because they introduced uncertainty and had spread and contaminated devices across a wide range of devices. Silently counterfeited devices are not OK.
They wouldn't have had to pretend if FTDI would have let them be a second source. I am sympathetic toward wanting to have the support of an already-widely-distributed driver rather than get stuck in the chicken vs egg of being unable to break in to a market because no current software supports your design.