Americans are a very generous people who will donate alot of spare cash to help out people who are in need. Last years, sales were not bad at BTTC, until the Titalwave hit and sales all over the Intenet dried up as people poured cash into relief operations. Same thing happened in the US with Katrina and Rita. I lost significant amount of money after two hurricanes made my area ground zero last year and I still donated to the Katrina/Rita relief.
Now the big question when this OpenAladdin first started, does the Amiga community really care to fork over that much for it? I really can't see it doing so for $40K. IMHO.
Dammy