You are saying that "need" is something I am inventing, but you know as well as I do that without the support of the free miners, BFL would not be where they are today.
Except that while you claim to be inventing, you're forgetting that BFL support came from me, and you and Con only decided to fork it so that you could steal credit for it......
BFGMiner was forked by you from cgminer. Simple fact. Please stop making yourself look ultimately stupid in front of everyone.
... though you stole the name BFGMiner from me also
Where have I or Con ever stolen credit for work you have done?
Where? Where? Where?
I can give a recent example where you have done that exactly to me - where you claimed credit over code I wrote since you had written code to do something similar at the same time ... and later retracted the claim ... and then later put my code in place of your own.
Yes you wrote the first BFL code in cgminer - we all know this - and I don't know where anyone has ever denied that or tried to take credit for doing that.
The closest I have done to that is that the Icarus code was originally copied from the original BFL code by Xiangfu, and then I fixed some bugs in Xiangfu's version and got it working ... and since then I have rewritten almost all the code in Icarus to fix bugs and problems and improve the performance of it and allow it to work on Cainsmore, Lancelot and other Icarus bitstream devices.
I haven't done all code changes, nor has conman/ckolivas or P_Shep or you or anyone else.
Simply go here if you feel the urge to work out who did what or who has done the most in each piece of code ...
https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer
Edit: In fact, to put the bitforce-firmware-flash.c linux code you have in BFGMiner into cgminer, I went to a lot of trouble to work out how in git to move a piece of code from an unrelated git to another git - just so that the original code shows that it came from you ... you had it, not me - I'm not in the market of taking credit away from someone ...