Well done for digging up the truth guys. Hodges' excuse is rather lame and is as likely as someone buying a copy of Lemmings and then complaining to Commodore that there wasn't an Amiga computer in the box because the label says that the game "runs on an Amiga". :-D
Quite frankly, the whole situation sucks. I have 2 Elbox towers and their Flyer Gold IDE interface and they are great bits of kit. From what I gather, Hodges has written an excellent USB stack and it deserves to be supported. However, the only way I am ever likely to purchase Chris' software is if I buy a product from Elbox. I feel safer purchasing a product costing several hundred dollars from a company like Elbox than I do purchasing a license for EUR38 from an individual. It's about time someone came to their senses and realised that bundling a licensed copy of the stack with the hardware direct from Elbox for a reduced (an guaranteed) EUR20 would benefit everyone and fight piracy of the software.