In case people haven't already realized it, I am not doing this for the money anyway.  My RB1 bitstream was released with no dev fee and people volunteer to send in their 4%.  In many cases in the last 8 months I turned down huge financial offers from private farms that wanted private bitstreams, but I am trying to help crypto stay in the hands of home miners.  So, even if it were true that releasing stuff publicly wasn't the best financial choice, finances have little to do with it.  Idealism does.  And I think I speak for the other groups as well; you can bet that up until now, Squirrels, Allmine, Mineority and Zetheron have all operated at a loss trying to get FPGA's into the hands of home miners.