I'm referring to the business, not the product. To me, it would make sense for them to hire and buy more space (assuming that's also a limiting factor).

This scares me a little bit.

Mining monopoly ? No thanks !

I don't like ANY monopoly ... free market fail.

You guyswon'th ave to worry about delivery times for ASICs, I've already purchased the first 6 Months production, so when they start to arrive at my warehouse, I'll list them as available for sale and immediate shipment, at a meager 500% markup of course.

The benefits and drawbacks of evolving technology started killing me 15 years before I was born...

There's a hardcopy ASIC project underway as well. Found in one of the threads in these forums. I'm not sure what the performance/cost difference is to custom ASIC, but I suspect it will beat BFL SIngles and BFL mini-rig in that category. And maybe even be competitive with ASIC (at some point) if they can lower the markup after recouping most of the startup cost, but just speculating on that part.

Your post doesn't really convey a consistent thought. If you're worried about the difficulty increasing an order of magnitude then the wait makes current miners more profitable because the delay in ASIC supply will delay the sharp increase in difficulty. The fact that the first shipments will take a while to ramp up will also make the difficulty increase slower than this ASIC spike that everyone fears.

I applaud your buy-back policy and hope that it will dampen fears over at GLBSE. I'm betting that pretty much every serious mining company will invest in these to the benefit of all the share holders, but for now the uncertainty is playing havoc with the market prices.
Having been the target of the longest troll fest in this forums history (data unavailable though it felt like it ) you guys deserve all the success in the world!
Thank you for being that company! 

Looking at the specs as I remember Bitcoin's pluggable cryptographic core is very supportive of a continued FPGA market since even a cheaper shared-die ASIC won't be upgradeable. FPGAs are improving all the time and will always have better resale value. My guess is that BFL realizes this and so will have found the least expensive way they can to roll SC out.

IMHO Bitcoin's inherent policy of diminishing returns is in general always going to put a throttle on crazed difficulty increases and is very supportive of the individual miner. It's no use developing a system to set us free financially just to have big players turn around and abscond with everything ala the current worlds financial position.

Bitcoin seems to have been designed to resist financial oligarchy?