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Well I suspect the answer to any such investigation would simply be what I posted back in February in "My Opinion"
If the point of such is to make them deliver faster, it will of course not work.
If instead there is some other agenda, well yes you might succeed in slowing things down.
Kano,
The agenda would be to get the facts/truth of why the delays.
As all preorder customers waiting months and months, they are by definition INVESTORS given BFL did not have a working product at the time. So their monies likely went into the R&D of BFL ASICs.
As investors they have a stake in the company's success (implicitly) and deserve to see the accounting behind BFL.
I suspect if such an investigation did start...we would find that BFL was in fact running a ponzi. (getting new customer monies to help finish producing said devices for initial investors)....and cycle through that a few times.
Hard to deny that simple fact there given BFL keeps saying they will need several months (likely a year IMHO) to get through all the preorders.
Well I'm simply pointing out that although there may be nefarious reasons (but I don't think there are) that at this point in time, going after BFL will not expedite anyone's orders.
As I said in the blog, there are certainly a number of understandable reasons for it.
I also did quite clearly say that, and why, BFL is to blame, not someone else.
They have, however, made head roads into that finally and even delivered a small number of Jalapenos.
I guess if they don't start delivering much soon, then we'll be almost back into where we were before the Jalapenos were delivered.
Though I would be surprised if it happened, or if they didn't give a reason if it did.
I guess the other point to mention (about me) is that it is quite obvious to see when I've made comments that have made me a target.
Once I actually had the Jalapeno, yes indeed I have been more vocal of BFL.
I think it's quite obvious why: they have delivered to me hardware that works.
How can I not consider that meaning they can certainly, 100%, produce this hardware?
Oddly people seem to think this is some sort of "pay off" though I've even made it quite clear that I don't consider being given hardware as "free" coz of the effort I end up spending on it (and an aside I spent hours last night and yesterday fscking with Avalon code with ckolivas sorting out direct USB ... and we still don't have it completely sorted yet ... wtf am I doing that? I don't actually know myself
I certainly don't want an Avalon and have turned down offers ...)
People have been saying, for the long time of the delay to delivery, that BFL is a scam or a ponzi.
Now they have delivered hardware, it's now ... "they're late and there are nefarious reasons why"
Well, we all know they are late, and trying to slow them down could ... make them even later
... which is the point of my last posts.
... and reread what you wrote, you are suggesting reasons, and then using those suggested reasons as truths in the same post.
The biggest point I can make, however, is that BFL clearly made money delivering BFL FPGAs (late) and have then gone and created BFL ASICs (late) that work.
From the point of anyone who understands the process of producing these devices, it makes no sense at all to even call it a ponzi once they have delivered even a few devices.
Nothing like this already exists anywhere else.
Avalon chips are slower than the FPGA's in a BFL FPGA single - they just use a lot less power than the FPGA so when you add 240 of them together you get ... ~67GH/s
ASICMINER chips are the same.
No one else has produced a dedicated ASIC chip that can pump out >2.5GH/s ... anywhere.
