> Dealing with software makes it both easier to steal and harder to know what 
> is going on. IF Sparkfun had in fact made illegitimate copies and this was 
> the source of your woes then Olimex's complaint would be a legitimate one, 
> even though you had not been guilty of illegal copying. How Olimex deals 
> with this is up to them and it may be bad for customer relations to refuse 
> to supply a replacement and to then 'talk to' Sparkfun rather than just 
> turning uyou away. Their choice.

In my country consumer law states that if I buy something from X, it is 
X's responsibility that I get something that is OK. That Y manufactured 
the thingy does not matter. Maybe US law is different, but by Dutch law 
the OP should have contacted Sparkfun, not Olimex.

(I sell Olimex stuff too, and when it does not work I expect my 
customers to contact me, and I must deal with it. Olimex might assist 
me, but if they don't I am still required to deal with the complaint.)

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