Unclaimed doesn't mean unowned. You are basically suggesting that Burnin/Zefir steal chips and give them to someone else.
I don't want to steal anything from anyone, but if these guys changed their minds, dropped out of the game and/or bitcoin completely or just are not interested in topic anymore, there is no reason to shut the chips (which will be useless in some months anyways) away for the next couple of years, because they maybe could come back one day and state their claim. The same about refunds, nobody knows if these adresses are still in use.
If someone shows up later and can prove his claim, there will be a way to handle this. Either by zefir, SebastianJu, burnin or others.
If they remain unclaimed and gather dust in a corner, so be it. They aren't yours, so it isn't for you to decide their fate.
Donate your own miner to him, or gather a group of people to donate a miner to him.
I would donate one device to a developer, who deserve it. Why not. But not for somebody who is replying to you to "fuck off" when you ask for something, like
kano.
LOL
So your telling me a guy who has a free version of cgminer that works on his hardware - versions 3.1.1 - that he has never given me anything for doing that for him - fine, nothing new there - but wants me to update his version to the latest one and then tells me off for not doing that for him for nothing ... doesn't deserve to be told to fuck off? Seriously?
And you say I have no right to tell him that.
The above is the basic premise of his argument about the CM1 ...
Of course you are also the same person who also bitched about me not accepting patches for the CM1 ... patches that didn't even work on current cgminer.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=78239.msg2263506#msg2263506Who also sent me 4 PMs that I replied to 3 of (I skipped one in the middle) and then you also complained on the forum that I didn't reply to your PMs ... instead of saying that I only replied to the 1st, 2nd and 4th PM you sent me ... 3 on one day (I answered 2) and 1 the next day (that I answered) ... but that apparently would good enough for free service ...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=78239.msg2263058#msg2263058OK - you fuck off also.
... and people wonder why I get pissed off ...