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baroffoos on Nov 17, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Writing userspace USB drivers for abandoned device...

Firmware and drivers are different though. If the firmware was totally locked down then the drivers would be no use for a clone and if the firmware was taken but the drivers were proprietary the clone could just use the exact same driver binary.

jrockway on Nov 17, 2019 [–]

> the clone could just use the exact same driver binary

This certainly caused FTDI a lot of trouble.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTDI#Driver_controversy

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