I appreciate the statement FTDI put out on their forum site.
It is the only action to take: Remove the destructive code but refuse to work with counterfeit devices.
However the damage is done.
At our today's engineering meeting we got a good analogy of what FTDI did:
It is like the shopkeeper who knows you for 10+ years suddenly points his gun at you saying "if you don't steal you have nothing to fear".
Sure you would think "WTF?"
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Well at least the shopkeeper has put the gun away now, saying "If you steal I won't talk to you anymore"
Sure I am fine with that.
All the FTDI chips we purchased the past year (around 17K units in total) went through their official sales network,
so the risk is almost 0. Phew...
I am still not happy.... but....whatever