I don't understand all the bashing. If they gave you one for free, I'm sure you'd all want it.
Don't understand your reasoning, sorry. There are all sorts of things I'd happily accept if they were free, but it doesn't make them good products. Being able to give something away is not setting the bar very high!
Besides, if they were giving them away for free they'd have no resale value, and I'd want to resell it because I wouldn't be able to stand that level of noise nor pay for all that electricity and a new PSU.
So if they gave just me one free, I'd take it and resell it and buy a 5870. If they gave everyone one I'd probably have to throw mine away.