I thought it was more board design problems than getting them made, but dont want to troll so...
You are most likely right. Manufacturing should be easy while having a good design.
Almost all of the talk in burnin and bkk's threads is over my head but they seem like very smart people, who I would have confidence in to get them working and in production fairly quickly.
That presents the problem, avalon can sell chips because they aren't making any more hardware. If BFL release all the details needed and the guys above get a board working it would surely decimate BFL's order queue.
So what is their reasoning ?
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I think they are sick of the design problems. I truly believe they did not picture nor intended this to happen.
The easy solution to make somebody else overtake board design and convert most of the pre-orders to chip sales seems probably very appealing to BFL right now.
They could come up with a motivation instrument for pre-order costumers. For example chip discount. That could make the magic happen, giving the fact those costumers are still interested in mining by not getting refunded already.
Butterflies would most likely also manufacture devices based on community board design. Or move to Bahamas finally. Who knows.Please note, that most of this is only my wild speculation.