FTB has been in the works for a while, and calling it a ripoff is like calling a movie a rip off because someone already made a movie.
Minecraft (due to its coding) can reduce even the most high end computer to rubble. Also, seeing as it was just released, servers have not had much time to install plugins (many of which have not yet updated)
Tekkit/Technic has been released for 1.4.2
Tekkit still runs on Minecraft 1.2.5 (as the main version) and as such, all of the mods are updated. The major mods FTB have not yet been updated. Also, Quantity =/= Quality
Tekkit/Technic also has a .jar launcher and the FTB team have release an exe launcher. The file creation is fine and you can minimize the log.
It just came out, how would there be tons of texture pack for it (and there actually are as many of the packs that work with Tekkit will work for most of the mods in FTB)
When Technic/Tekkit is updated, condesors, relays, red matter, etc. will be gone, just like in FTB.
Quantity =/= Quality
sounds painful
It is a mod pack... Of course the mods are the same THEY ARE THE SAME MODS.
Quality =/= Quantity
I don't see all of these comments you are talking about