So BFL did not pay for your trip to their facility and later gave you their first ASIC, trying to pass it off as if they "started shipping" (where have we seen that too in December 2013 from another bunch of scammers?). And didn't that shipped machine turn out to be still at the BFL labs while you were hacking on it remotely?

So yes, if you sacrifice your own reputation to get into bed with lowlifes like BFL and Hashfast, the comes at a cost and that is not "free" you are right.