Harald Welte wrote:
I would like to hereby solicit comments from the list
subscribers
to see if they would like to see this kind of postings, even if
they're as frequent as your recent posts
Since these particular units aren't completely trivial to acquire I
think it's nice to spread information efficiently within the project
when there are opportunities to buy one, both when it's a commercial
offer and when it's a not-for-profit developer offer.
I think it's nice if list subscribers can have some head start before
gear goes onto eBay or other sales channels.
Since it's very low volume posting I'm personally not annoyed, even
if it's as frequent as recently.
There are of course other ways to keep people updated about hardware
availability - one idea would be a wiki page which anyone who is
interested could subscribe to in order to receive updates - off list.
(That shouldn't require a wiki account though. Maybe RSS is a good
solution. And a wiki account would still be needed to post offers,
which means slightly more effort than simply posting an email.)
Very generally speaking I think it's valuable for the project to show
that various companies are not afraid to openly offer both services
and products related to the software.
//Peter