[sdiy] The goose-stepping morons are at it again

[Tim Ressel]

Hi,

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Guess what? To develop a USB product, you have to have
a vendor ID. Guess how much that costs? The minimum is
$1500 for two years, or $2500 per year for the deluxe
plan. Oh yeah, during development you can fake it, but
for a real product they want their payola. They call
it a administration fee. $2500 to write a number on a
piece of paper? they must have a good union. I missed
the episode of the Sopranos where they took over the
USB racket...

I was pretty honked off at Apple when they pulled this
kind of caca with their crappy Nubus implimentation. A
developer had to pay them like $2000 to develop a card
for their crappy machine with 3 whole slots in it.
This was one of the things that make the Mac what it
is today: #2 with 5% of the market.

Perhaps USB isn't the way to go. I can use an EPP and
get similar performance I think. At the people who
make parallel port cards aren't trying to prevent
garage shop operations from developing products.

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--Tim


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