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Whats wrong with selling them? Just mark them or something and a happy noob will have some soldering practice?
Quote from: SmAsH on May 02, 2010, 03:44:23 PMWhats wrong with selling them? Just mark them or something and a happy noob will have some soldering practice?The thing that is 'wrong' is that they are pretending to be ATmel chips - when they aren't. So they are 'robbing' ATmel of their reputation and no doubt of their revenues. Its as bad as stealing software by creating copies where the author gets no income.I always avoid China like the plague on eBay etc. Am sure there are some 'honest' folk - but until someone can police it on behalf of the legitimate folk then its a 'no brainer'.
Quote from: Webbot on May 02, 2010, 06:20:41 PMQuote from: SmAsH on May 02, 2010, 03:44:23 PMWhats wrong with selling them? Just mark them or something and a happy noob will have some soldering practice?The thing that is 'wrong' is that they are pretending to be ATmel chips - when they aren't. So they are 'robbing' ATmel of their reputation and no doubt of their revenues. Its as bad as stealing software by creating copies where the author gets no income.I always avoid China like the plague on eBay etc. Am sure there are some 'honest' folk - but until someone can police it on behalf of the legitimate folk then its a 'no brainer'.Huuu, I think you misunderstood what Smash was asking.We are talking about SparkFun selling a piece of plastic with pins @ $0.50, they don't pretend anything. It's pretty clear from their description and the datasheet. I find it amusing actually Their supplier on the other hand is a thief.
i'm not too surprised that Chinese manufacturers would make knockoffs of something so common but a microchip? that can't be easy to do.
http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorial/news/AtmelVisit/Atmel_visit-M-14.jpg