The only thing the USB-IF could do to stop this is revoke the original VID useless, because they can’t reassign it to anyone else. This is not a project supported by the USB Implementers’ Forum, and is more of a legal game of chicken on the part of pid.codes. pid.codes obtained the rights to a single VID – 0x1209 – and now they’re parceling off all the PIDs that remain to open source hardware projects. Now, someone has finally done the sensible thing and put an unused USB VID to work. Very few companies will ever release 65,000 products, and there are a lot of unused PIDs sitting around out there. To sell anything with USB and have it work like USB should, you need to buy a USB Vendor ID, a $5000 license that grants you exclusive use of 65,536 USB Product IDs. The USB Implementers’ Forum doesn’t make things easy for anyone building a product with a USB port.
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