$250 a year is a pretty small amount, probably about what it costs to keep a registry of SysEx IDs so that manufacturers don't create conflicts. What's the alt

$250 a year is a pretty small amount, probably about what it costs to keep a registry of SysEx IDs so that manufacturers don't create conflicts. What's the alternative? This is a bit like MAC addresses - if network gear manufacturers didn't have some type of system for de-conflicting addresses it would be chaos when you bought 2 pieces of gear that conflicted with each other.