[time-nuts] If any of your USB devices have stopped working lately...

paul swed paulswedb at gmail.com
Fri Oct 24 02:05:36 UTC 2014


Umm I think its profoundly hard to know one way or another what chip you
have in a widget. This is pretty insane actually.
I buy products that I believe are legit no way to know just as if the cpu
in my acer or emachines not legal. Heck I have no idea.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Bill Dailey <docdailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well..if they didn't properly license the technology...  They should be
> disabled.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Oct 23, 2014, at 8:45 PM, Mark Sims <holrum at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Happened to a friend of mine.  All his Arduino stuff died.   This could
> be the reason:
> > http://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/ftdi-driver-kills-fake-ftdi-ft232
> > Short story:  FTDI released a new version of their USB driver (via
> Windows automatic updates no less) that bricks other vendor's compatible
> versions of their interface chip.   They also updated their license file to
> indicate that this may happen...  except you never get a chance to decline
> the new license with automatic driver updates.  I can just hear the class
> action lawyers drooling...
> >
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