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by baroffoos 2412 days ago
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.
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> 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