Can we not just make a kickstarter already to make a non-profit open source ASIC company? Make them available through Amazon.com so everybody gets the same chance to buy one.
Non profit? How would that attract the $500,000+ USD that it takes to develop and produce an ASIC?
Everyone has the same chance to buy either of the available, non-scam ASICs, from Avalon and ASICMINER. ASICMINER was crowd-sourced through GLBSE. Avalon was/is crowd-sourced to some degree through pre-orders.