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

[patchell]

    Well, that is only if you are going to sell them...I seem to
remember there are developer IDs, or just make one up.  As long as you
don't sell they thing, there is nothing to worry bout.

    But you are right, it is a racket...

Tim Ressel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> < vent mode on >
>
> 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.
>
> < vent mode paused >
>
> --Tim
>
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 -Jim
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