Have FTDI kicked-off round 2 of the clone wars?
Why do people need a FTDI driver, it appears that Windows has a USB Serial Class driver? https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn...At least on recent OSX the OS CDC one seems more robust than the FTDI provided one if you pull a cable while it's running. (I assume it's a genuine chip, who knows!)