I'll post photos and a review when my unit arrives.
I was surprised that I was the only core developer who paid for a unit. Followed the shotgun approach: ordered units from all the people working on ASICs.
Good for you!
Most developers seem to be waiting for freebies simply because they are coders.
In most industries people pay for expensive Developer Kits (including a computer system).
Yes and those developer kits include software developed by the company producing it.
In this case the software is created by the developers ... and modified by the companies (or even modified by the developers themselves ...)
They save way more money by using free software already written by the developers than the cost of sending out a few boards.
Your comparison fails.
But it fails on an even higher level - Avalon have not sent any hardware to myself or ckolivas and have never said they would.
... though they have used cgminer ...
Are you implying you should not buy hardware like the other developer?
I understand your position. But in this case, any development hardware sent to you actually generates BTC. Perhaps you should ask for a lease from different companies and then pay back the hardware costs through the coins it produces as you code for it?
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I have noticed a few coders/developers in the wild seemingly....almost demanding....hardware because of their unique position to contribute compatible software updates.
Shouldn't you pay for it or return it once the coding process is done?
Do you sort of understand where I am coming from?