@dammy
Others may say they are a commercial OS, the sad numbers of paying customers prove they are economically unviable and more charity then anything else.
I still find it insulting, especially the way you put it forward earlier.
It is true however that the income from the MorphOS licenses doesn't even remotely cover the development costs of the OS. But that has been the case for over a decade and personally I don't have any problem with that. MorphOS isn't there to make a profit. It's a hobby more than anything else I'd say, and quite ambitious one, too. The license cost applied to MorphOS 2.x is there to cover the costs of the support infrastructure, the new HW for future developments and so on. I object to labeling that as charity.
Personally I find the MorphOS licensing model quite ok, at least you can try the OS without being forced to buy it. This will work even better once the OS will be available to wider range of affordable HW (read: Mac Mini G4).