On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Theo de Raadt wrote:
Hi all,
there are bad news about RB600A. As everybody can read on MicroTik's
website, RB600A has suddenly been discontinued:
http://www.routerboard.com/pricelist.php?showProduct=55
They also removed the case for this board.
Why did this happen? It comes to mind if that could possibly be
related to Mark's work on OpenBSD support of this device? Don't
know.
Regards,
David
If two things happen after another, it does not imply that the first
caused the second.
True. Thus my words "it comes to mind if", "possibly" and "don't know".
The fact is that this board was quite knew model and its withdrawal seems
sudden and unexpected, at least for myself.
There were also possibly alien landings around that time it and it
comes to mind that they could possibly have interfered in the
production of the machines. Don't know.
I have no knowledge if there were any alien landings anywhere. Sorry.
Mark announced his work to support RB600A in OpenBSD, which was a great
news. Sadly, production of this board was withdrawn within about a week
after the Mark's announcement. Bad luck. RB600A seemed to be a succesful
product, with OpenBSD or not. Now it's gone, bad luck.
There is nothing to argue about. It's a pity.
Regards,
David
