On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Wouter van Ooijen <wouter@voti.nl> wrote:
> And I must confess that it is not likely to change to 'available',
> the usb.org simply ignores me, except for threatening letters when I
> was selling PID blocks. AFIAK this is the same for the few other places
> that sold PID blocks.
>
> If it is for an open-source project feel free to contact me, otherwise I
> am afraid the only option is to buy a VID. When I did so this option was
> hidden somewhere on the usb.org website. IIRC the price was $1500 (one
> time, no yearly fee).
>
> And you can of course ask usb.org why they don't either
> - sell small PID blocks themselves, or
> - let someone else do so.

I agree with you that it is kind of strange.

Jan Axelson has this article and she talks about
"The Vendor ID Dilemma".
http://www.lvr.com/usb_on_a_budget.htm

Xiaofan
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