Why should they ?
All people who have a clue about OS-coding in this market
allready work for them or on AROS which shares some sources
:-P :flame: :quickdraw: :shocked:
(should be enough grim-balls).
MorphOS is their main piece of capital and without control
about everybody could just use it in a way that wouldn't bring
in money.
Making MorphOS mandatory with every Pegasos makes sure it gets
disrtibuted and used by 3rd party developers.
Releasing a free version for the Phase5-HW would gain MOS a quite
big market-share against OS4. If they manage to release it before
OS4 it might even be the last punch to make OS4 fail.
But that is not the main reason for making it free, AFAIK they
have decided that releasing a commercial OS for the AA-Amigas (and
worst of it th A1200) with all the hacks and add-ony, the ageing
HW, the obscure SW .... would be a GIGANTIC support problem, and
in that case they would be forced to secure a working OS for
every config, while a free OS is just a "if it don't run it
won't run " affair.
