Not a defense of finid's stupid comment, but the developers and volunteers basically are the project.

Requesting hardware this way makes a lot of sense. Hunting down oddball hardware isn't an ideal use of developer time, but it's the sort of thing OpenBSD's users, the ones reading the request, are probably very well equipped to help with. I have sent projects hardware a few times over the years as it gets decommissioned and it's helpful to know what is useful and what is not. I'm happy to see the hardware go somewhere where it continues to be useful.