From the horses mouth...Ray Hall...hope this puts an end to the speculation that the Vi-PEC is a rebadged Link...its actually the other way.
The Vipec was developed to my specification and uses a lot of the features associated with the Autronic ECU. I wanted a ECU that was better then the Autronic in areas that had caused me and my dealers a lot of frustration when tuning. The Vipec works just as I requested, and as can be seen from this forum and other feedback the product is very good. If I had stayed with Autronic, and had not influenced the design of the Vipec, the Link product would not be close to the way it is now, which is a re-badged Vipec.
The Vipec comes with mine and the Vipec dealers support. If you want that support, then you have to pay for it.
Ray.