Adafruit: Exclusive Interview with Fred Dart – CEO of FTDI

I think that was the most straight-up and honest answer I've ever seen a chip company CEO give to questions on their policy decisions.

The interesting bits for me were 90% of the problem is "cheap arduino clones" and "we've never had a problem with large distributors".

Context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8493849

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11011343