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A few years ago, a Taiwanese company began selling a 12C clone, marketed as the Aurora FN-1000. You could get it for $25 from Fry's. More info here:
http://www.finseth.com/hpdata/craig-aurora.html
There was speculation that if the 12C could be cloned, then the 15C might be next. But the FN-1000 experiment was apparently unsuccessful. As far as I know, it was discontinued, and no further clones have appeared.