Avalon doesn't want to become a "central mining hardware authority."

They are disappointed that BFL is such a failure. They want to have competitors.

They could help competitors by publishing their designs, but that actually tends to push competing designs out of the market, because it's cheaper to just copy Avalon.

Oh, and by the way, they claim they will open source their software. (It hasn't happened yet, though.) Why don't you ask them to make good on what they already promised?

Avalon has grown really tired of this forum's behavior (troll, off-topic, reading comprehension fail).