My point was more that the cloned chips are using ripped off code with no guarantee that it's not been hacked about and will work properly. 9 times out of 10 the cloned chips will probably work fine. I'm just making people aware that the cheap ones do contain code that's been ripped off from another manufacturer and sold on for profit.
People can make up their own mind then as to what they want to do.
I've looked into this a fair amount and one thing I will say is beware of fake ELM ICs.
The ELM327 IC is what the vast majority of these scanners will be based on. The ones at www.scantool.net will use genuine ELM ICs, but the ones like this one and this one will almost certainly use non-genuine ELM ICs.
The ELM327 chip is just a PIC with some custom firmware on it. A few years ago someone managed to get the firmware off one of these PICs and since then the fake ones have really taken off. Whereas the genuine ELMs have frequent updates, the fake ones obviously don't.
I've had an @googlemail.co.uk address for a long while, and if you sent mail to youraddress@gmail.com instead of youraddress@googlemail.co.uk you always ended up receiving the mail fine.
The only difference for UK people wishing to 'convert' their email address to @gmail.com is what's displayed on the gmail.com site when you log in.
Hill starts are a large part of a UK driving test. If you roll back at all you'll fail. That's what the handbrake is for.
In England the subway arrives from right to left, not form left to right.
It's random, actually. It could come from any direction, there's no rule.
If you think the system is working, ask someone who's waiting for a prompt.