We paid $1500 to purchase a PID - this is a one-time cost.
Personally I feel this is an outrageous "administration fee", but I'm
not sure you have much choice if you want to ship a USB product.
Cheers,
Steve.
On 18 May 2005, at 20:54, Barry Twycross wrote:
At 12:36 PM -0700 5/18/05, George Lawrence Storm wrote:
I am working in conjunction with a small company who is developing
a USB data acquisition board fro the Macintosh.
Is there any way of obtaining a Vendor / Product ID without paying
$2000 per year?
There have been several discussions about this on the USB-if's
discussion board at <http://developers.usb.org>. There has been,
and may still be, a scheme where you can buy a vendor ID without
becoming a USB-if member (which is what costs the $2k). That's a
one time $1k fee or so. I think you could also become a member, get
your VID, and you keep it if your membership lapses.
PIDs are administered by whoever own's the VID.
You may be able to get a PID for someone else's VID to use. If
you're using someone else's silicon to construct your device, they
may be willing to give you a PID to use.
--
Barry Twycross
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