>
>Bottom line: clones good, counterfeits bad.  Think about it:  if you
>were an American company who ordered 2 million units from a
>Chinese manufacturer, who specced PICs but then used inferior
>quality counterfeits, and you had a terrible failure rate in one year,
>would you use a PIC in your next product the next year?  No, you
>wouldn't.  But you might use the same manufacturer, because
>AFAYK, they got bad product from Microchip.

A lot of counterfeit batteries coming from China too.
Locally, at a swap meet, I can buy "Dunacell", "DuraKing", and "DuraDuke" 
batteries, in the black and gold packaging with expiration date.  Of course 
in China, I could also buy "Duracells" that were never made by Duracell, 
but most of that gets stopped in customs I guess..  Same problem though, 
unsuspecting user gets the counterfeit, and blames the real company for the 
results.  Which is why we have trademark law.


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