I totaly understand Jens in this.
He have explained that he bought it to remove an issue of Apolloowners complaining on his hardware for being faulty when it's issues caused by their CPU board. I know people can have a hard time accepting that it's not a newly installed peice of hardware that is to blame for a surfaced issues but a previous installed component. It have likely cost him a lot of time and money and it's perfectly possible it's been enough by it's own to get Jens to take the steps and buying it. That said I'm in no doubt that he have gained some new knowledge and understanding from the purchase and possibly used this in one way or another in his later products. Only Jens can say how big a contributing factor this had on the purchase but I won't speculate in it nor any other possible motives there might have been.
You can't expect him to go against his best interest and passing this on, let alone for free, and try to pressure him to do so with an online petition is borderline of being an insult. Be glad it didn't backfire, at least now you get an option to buy MACH131 chips.
