Where's the option to switch to Avalon?
No shit. The switching to BFL option might as well read "jumping out of the frying pan into the fire." As it looks (to me) at present.
This whole poll is actually most likely to provide info useful to BFL to decide when to exit stage left. To the extent that polls on bitcointalk.org have any reliability at all.
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pre-post edit to OP: make the option be something like "Avalon when possible."
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BTW, for those who are unfamiliar with how at least some of the more successful open-source hardware projects work: The actual goal is to get out of hardware manufacture and distribution altogether. What you actually sell is expertise to people who have specific needs and what-not. If an organization in intimately familiar with all aspects of the project (like because they designed the reference hardware and software) then they are better prepared to deliver on engineering projects and have a lot more legitimacy than some random jerk-off. This only works well in certain circumstances, and only works if the organization has demonstrable superiority in engineering and reliability. That ~nzhang guy seems to have some potential here in the mining hardware space.
Of course I have no idea whether this is the path that Avalon wishes to take. I'll only put some focus on researching them when they demonstrate delivery of a viable ASIC unit.
