Alas, that is interesting.  I wonder if they are the folks that were making
the asia sourced 5X knockoffs that the cheerful fellow was hawking on our
PicList.  (Ages ago.. anyone out there remember?)  Just a neutral curiosity,
I always wondered who they were, if the part was a true compatible,
etcetera.  The avid among us may still have it in an arcive somewhere.

Chris Eddy
Pioneer Microsystems, Inc.

Tjaart van der Walt wrote:

> >
> I see Mchip actually got two guys in Taiwan thrown in
> jail (7 months) for copyright infringements yesterday.
>
> Here's their gloat :
> http://www.microchip.com/10/Edit/pRelease/PR103/index.htm