Why? For developing that library I'd be perfectly happy if he'd made a fund raiser then spend the money on hookers and blow.
God knows that happens enough in finance for much worse outcomes.
God knows that happens enough in finance for much worse outcomes.
The point wasn't specifically a complaint about spending $5K on a computer but more establishing a pattern of a lack of transparency which the author thinks has an overall negative effect on community-funded, multi-author/community-run open source projects in Python.
Also, as described, it sounds like Smith - an author of the networking package which Reitz was planning to use - presumably knows what hardware needed to develop and test the network layer.