Quote from: ckolivas on August 06, 2014, 10:33:13 PM

Quote from: Marvell1 on August 06, 2014, 04:49:16 PM

Quote from: Minor Miner on August 06, 2014, 04:44:06 PM

Quote from: ckolivas on August 06, 2014, 12:58:27 PM

Quote from: Searing on August 06, 2014, 10:16:10 AM

although I am somewhat disappointed you paid 'mucho" for the sp30...I was under the impression you were 'SuperMan"
getting equipment for free from your hardware guides and reviews

Even the guy who writes the software that almost all mining equipment in existence uses and depends on hardly ever gets free hardware, even though he returns the favour with ongoing driver support, though he did get an SP10 which he was grateful for.

I think this is very sad. Manufacturers need to 'man up' and take care of con and kano.

They probably get free stuff once in a while and plus they were in the bitcoin game alot earlier than most enough with the pity parade they probable have a decent BTC portfolio. I write open source software myself and I never expect a handout I do it in my spare time because I like to code.. and ..

most of the code i write and sometimes make money off of is stuff I needed for myself anyways and just decided to share it since it solves a problem for me and others if they didn't do it someone else would have.

they do good work yes but come on now

Thanks. My point was not about asking for more stuff. I was pointing out it would be a little hypocritical for the hardware manufacturers to gladly give away hardware for the sake of a review which may affect the objectivity of the reviewer, while not supporting the developer who wrote the software they depend on. Fortunately neither of the parties involved here suffer from that as Dogie's reviews remain objective in my opinion, and Spondoolies offered me an SP10.

As for writing free software, I actually put aside and sacrifice some time that I used to work professionally to continue working on cgminer (and other bitcoin software projects) turning it into a part time job, though I have continued to try and incentivise the maintenance of all my projects as free software by charging less for paid code when the source remains with an open license such as GPL, or simply maintaining/updating the existing driver for a once off donation. The core cgminer code I continue developing for free. Driver code I find it hard to write for free when it's used to allow a hardware manufacturer to make bucketloads of profit. I also get paid as much as possible in bitcoin since ultimately I'm here to help the bitcoin ecosphere as much as I'm here to get paid. Yes I'm bitcoin-operated as someone once called me, but only for certain aspects of what I spend time coding.

Quote from: jtoomim on August 06, 2014, 02:44:39 PM

ckolivas, I'll give you 6 kW of free hosting with us for as long as we're in business. If you have use for a dedicated server on a 100 Mbit/s symmetrical fiber link, we could probably provide that for you too, as long as you're careful about security and do your own sysadmining and are okay with uptime in the 99%-99.9% range.

Edit: As long as we're in business and you are actively maintaining cgminer and contributing to the community.

Thanks for the generous offer. I have no need for that at the moment but I appreciate the offer.

Con,

What hardware are you NOT interested in. The reason I ask is that I have good bit of hardware that I have recently pulled from service for lack of space and would be willing to send some your way if you are interested. For example, do you have access to cheap electricity or are you only interested in very efficient hardware? I have hardware, coolers, PSUs and would be happy to send some stuff your way as a gesture of appreciation.