Charles Craft <PICLIST@mitvma.mit.edu> wrote:

> What a crock! Compare the USB procedure to what it takes to get an
> enterprise number for SNMP
> ....
> [The procedure for getting a USB Vendor ID number] looks like
> extortion to me.

Chuck:

A telephone number costs very little to get; a number on the waiting
list at your local Bentley dealership is rather expensive.  So what?

The USB-IF is a non-profit organization; no one is getting rich off
VID registrations.

If you have a product idea that's good enough to be worth developing,
the one-time $1500 cost of a VID falls into the noise.

-Andy


=== Andrew Warren --- aiw@cypress.com
=== IPD Systems Engineering, CYSD
=== Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
===
=== Opinions expressed above do not
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=== Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

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