AVR-Chat

At 05:26 AM 7/27/04 +0000, you wrote:
> > As I understand this part, to be
> > recognized as the onwer of a specifi name, you need to register and
> > buy the name.
>
>Yes, and it's not cheap... $1500.  People occasionally talk about
>someone making a 'group buy' of a vendor ID and then selling the
>individual device IDs for just a few bucks (since there are 65536
>device IDs per vendor IDs!), but I've yet to see that successfully
>happen.  (It seems to be one of those things that many people like
>the idea of, but unless you're actually going to _sell_ your product,
>the approach of just using an arbitrary ID works just fine... hence
>few people are willing to even pony up, say, $20 for an ID...)

I thought FTDI provided something like 
that.  http://www.dlpdesign.com/usb/vid.html

I haven't used this but I have kept it in mind in case I needed it.

Robert

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