Personally I would love to see them have to deliver all the gen1 asics.
This just reads as another attempt to scrap the gen1 and rush into gen2 (which I assume they will be mining on to increase profit) so the cloud begins to lift over them and new bitcoin entrants can be sucked in.
I sure hope everyone keeps their gen1 asic's hashing.
Mainly for the good of the network but also so we see them begin to fail and bfl attempt to meet their "lifetime warranty".
The lifetime warranty, if I remember correctly, is one year after they start shipping the Monarch. Unfortunately, I can't find any FTC regulations that can redefine the warranty to a longer period, so those who have 65nm products can only hope and pray that the Monarch is delayed or never shipped. EU customers say that their warranty period must be at least 3 years according to EU regulations, but BFL doesn't care much about rules anyway.