[Fwd: [W4OVH] Bargain priced, sub-mini tri band radios]

[Mark Whittington]

FTDI pirating has been a problem for a while.  It was bad enough that they
wrote a driver update (published through MS) that bricked the knock-offs.
Pissed off a LOT of people and got their driver pulled by MS.

https://hackaday.com/2014/10/22/watch-that-windows-update-ftdi-drivers-are-killing-fake-chips/

https://hackaday.com/2016/02/01/ftdi-drivers-break-fake-chips-again/

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 8:20 AM, Rob Seastrom <rs at seastrom.com> wrote:

>
> > On Aug 20, 2016, at 11:00 AM, Terry McCarty - WA5NTI <3t3 at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > Some even have pirated FTDI clone chips and may not work at all, so be
> aware.
>
> heh, pirated FTDI clones now?  Several years ago the big problem was
> pirated PL2303 knock-offs.
>
> Gotta hand it to the pirates for their taste in upping their game!
>
> -r
>
>
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