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On 4/7/2015 10:05 AM, Vitaliy M wrote:=0A=
> http://hackaday.com/2015/04/03/usb-pids-for-all/=0A=
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> "The USB Implementers=92 Forum doesn=92t make things easy for anyone buil=
ding a product with a USB port. To sell anything with USB and have it work =
like USB should, you need to buy a USB Vendor ID, a $5000 license that gran=
ts you exclusive use of 65,536 USB Product IDs. Very few companies will eve=
r release 65,000 products, and there are a lot of unused PIDs sitting aroun=
d out there.=0A=
> Now, someone has finally done the sensible thing and put an unused USB VI=
D to work. pid.codes obtained the rights to a single VID =96 0x1209 =96 and=
 now they=92re parceling off all the PIDs that remain to open source hardwa=
re projects.=0A=
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> This is not a project supported by the USB Implementers=92 Forum, and is =
more of a legal game of chicken on the part of pid.codes. The only thing th=
e USB-IF could do to stop this is revoke the original VID; useless, because=
 they can=92t reassign it to anyone else. The original owners of the VID, I=
nterBiometrics, licensed their VID before transferring or sublicensing VIDs=
 and PIDs was prohibited by the USB-IF.=0A=
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> You can get a PID by forking the pid.codes repo, claiming a PID, and send=
ing a pull request. Once that=92s accepted, that PID is yours forever."=0A=
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People have tried this before. I wish them luck, but the USB IF will put=0A=
up a fight.=0A=
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I think Olin might have tried it, and Wouter actually re-sold PIDs. He=0A=
got a cease-and-desist.=0A=
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