>> [USB] > And the proliferation of unofficial VID and PIDs seems to be an > issue, [...]
Well, given the difficulty of getting official values (USD 4k, per year(!), seems to be the cheapest option at the moment - certainly completely out of reach for anything hobbyist), this is hardly surprising. Of course, that's not entirely unreasonable given the tiny space. But, also, it is entirely predictable; I don't know what the USB designers were on when they either failed to predict it or ignored the problem. I suspect they were trying to lock out the small fry; how they failed to realize that any kind of enforcement is utterly impractical I have no idea. (The sane thing to do would have been to make the space large enough that IDs could be handed out freely...128 bits, say.) I recall seeing some organization that had a vendor ID inherited from a company that had it assigned before the license agreement made them non-perpetual and non-transferrable, and was handing out device IDs, but my search-fu is too weak to find it now (if indeed it still exists). > Really, it's a mess. I concur. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
