It is a Moore's law industry, FDTI has actually milked out much more than what a typical company involved in this industry could have done. To expect to have the same or more shall be wishful thinking. They are not fighting the compatible, they are fighting Moore's law. The most valuable thing FDTI had was probably their brand, and if they had been studying IBM and wanted to extract the most value out. It was to sold their brand away to the lower cost manufacturer when their brand was golden. But it is too late now after their move of killing compatible chips. Their chips are finally used by people like me down in the chain, buying for installations and deployment. It is a lost cause now to me. I used to spec ONLY FDTI to banning FDTI. No point thinking about stopping the compatible now, because the whole FDTI well is poisoned. If I was part of the team, I would want to move all new businesses to another company and show no trace of FDTI association. Do the protection ahead and not later. When FDTI is actively poisoning their own well, likely they must have judged there are not much left inside for them. So Poison it, screw everyone.