why a public release is good, even for a small niche market - even if it is a 'paid' beta release is that there will be some people who will be happier to buy it than not have it at all - for example... let's say (totally hypothetically) that morphos 3 worked fine on a macbook, but it had a new updated tcp/ip stack that wasn't finished - so what? you could perhaps use genesis, ami-tcp as a stop-gap... anyway, purely hypothetical. To have a proper laptop that can run MorphOS 'in any workable state' would be so cool and useful... Anyway, when I first saw MorphOS in person with 1.4 - I was blown away.