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Many IC manufacturers provide free sub-licensed PIDs from their own VID allocation.

You can license PIDs inexpensively from MCS Electronics in the Netherlands. They bought VID 16D0 before the USB IF prohibited reselling product IDs.

At this point I believe 16D0 has been revoked by the asshats at USB IF, but that's not the customer's problem. It's not as if they'll ever be able to assign VID 16D0 to anyone else.

You can buy one from a dutch company that got their VID before the terrorists of the USB-IF tried to unilaterally change contract terms after the fact to prevent subrange resale: https://www.mcselec.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&...

I have two of those OpenMoko USB IDs that I use for commercial products - they're open source of course

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