Thanks for the tl;dr version   Got coffee in me now too btw I knew I had a good chance to be wrong on the letter of the "law" there which is why all the disclaimer bit.  I assume the part that fits here is the All code linked with GPL 3.0 source code must be disclosed under a GPL 3.0 compatible license bit? and yeah that is much clearer.
I disagree with the "you fuckers" you is pretty general there - and what few this is pretty publicly available, though I get what you mean by if all d3's come out increased in hashrate then same situation as before.. but lower hashrate and increased profit (by way of using less electricity) does A) no more harm to crypto than bitmain releasing too many of a machine did.. in fact it lessens the impact. and B) makes it where the people who bought them can get more out of them.  side note: if bitmain released very few of a machine it would only benefit the few anyway.. just sayin' - on to supporting crypto altruistically.. is that really what you are doing? the coins are economy driven, so.. there is like money involved in there somewhere. If you want to support crypto AND make a buck what is wrong with that? again just sayin'  Did you install the firmware? Do you mine for free? Do you give all your coins to charity? Would you expect someone in a different field to be as altruistic? - hey that's cool if you do.. but most people won't EVER be like that. Not that they aren't good people and want the best for others (like blissz could have made the firmware for himself and just never released it to anyone but -I do not know this for sure- I'm betting he thought hey let's share this to help people recoup from the plummet) anyway forgot what I was saying. *rofl* maybe still not enough coffee.