> I'm a little disappointed.

I am not. You can only be dissapointed if you had any expectations beforehand ;-)

> I doubt Thomas and the Natami team will seriously consider this component for
> production because we are talking about "illegally relabeled Motorola chips".

Could it be that they not only claim but also truly believe those chips to be "license produced copies of the Motorola design"? If yes, why would they shy away from using this component for production?