I personally have restrained myself from jumping into the fray on /.
I have posted many a time on /., but I refuse to drop down to the level of some of the comments that have been posted under that article.
/. isn't the typical crowd for gracious or professional commentary on articles. There are plenty of good posts, but plenty of misinformed/just-plain-wrong comments posted to articles.
This article is no exception.
I am glad, however, that it's been covered there now
*EDIT* Okay, I finally bit, and wrote a comment on the story (my /. username is
macmaniac if you care to look for it). It's kind of sad though, some of the commentary I've been seeing there, and some of it makes me wonder how FIRST can get such a negative initial rap from people both in and out of FIRST....