"All they have to say is "We write our drivers to support our chips, if it messes with other chips that incorrectly identify as ours, that's just the way it went, it'd cost us extra to support them and why should we help our competitors"."
Buzz, thanks for playing. :)
That won't get them out of discovery for various torts, and the discovery (emails, code, etc) is likely to show they did this on purpose.
It's not practically impossible, it's trivially easy to disassemble and see if it does this on purpose.
Then you argue it to a jury, and it's going to look really really bad for FTDI.
Buzz, thanks for playing. :)
That won't get them out of discovery for various torts, and the discovery (emails, code, etc) is likely to show they did this on purpose.
It's not practically impossible, it's trivially easy to disassemble and see if it does this on purpose. Then you argue it to a jury, and it's going to look really really bad for FTDI.