I am MORE than paying attention. I was CHIP customer of Avalon and got mildly screwed.
I'm aware. Have you missed the plethora of "Fuck Avalon" posts in any thread started by a third-party manufacturer using their chips?
The point here is you are going after people who are buying chips and producing boards that didn't screw the community "YET".
I started my sentence with "Perhaps", implying a question or an idea for consideration. Don't get your shirt in a bunch.
That aside, would you ever employ BFL chips in your WASP project? If so, would you understand if I were to boycott you if I thought BFL deserved to go bankrupt and that by supporting you I'm supporting them?
I don't see torches at Marto's door, or those who built the BFL chipped boards or even a huge outcry for those miners being built in China off the A1 chips that were sold backdoor.
Where do you draw the line?
That's obviously subjective and open for each individual to assess and act upon.
Ethically I agree you shouldn't be using HF chips but you know what the problem is HF not Black Miner or the others. In this case and others you can support the builder and hate the chip maker. And you should be warning people off HF as much as possible and you can rightly point out to Black Miner and others that HF is not a reputable company and you really shouldn't be dealing with them. But you know what if you bitch about Black Miner you have to bitch about the others as well who have done this before and continue to do it now.
I agree, and if I end up in other manufacturers threads on my pursuits of Hashfast_CL then I'll wave my flag there too. If anything has been proven it's that the opines voiced in these forums don't mean shit.