> back when that port was initiated, the Efika was mostly seen as a platform "to get
> things going" by Genesi, while waiting for the 5121e based "LimePC" devices.

Just to put this into chronologic perspective: Genesi's payment to the MorphOS Team for porting MorphOS to the Efika 5200B took place no later than January 2007. The letter of intent between THTF/MTC and Genesi was signed in October 2007. Freescale announced the MPC5121e in May 2007 to start sampling one month later. So I think it's clear that in January 2007 there were no "LimePC" devices nor any other MPC5121e based device in any kind of development. At this point in time Genesi had mere intentions to develop devices based on a future and not even announced yet MPC5200B successor SoC that's to include a 3D capable graphics core:

http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/10/wanting-what-you-have.html

> MorphOS could have played a key part there

While BBRV indeed said so many times, Neko contradicted these statements:

"Except for overexcitement on the part of one executive, MorphOS was not in their interests at all"
https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=6196&forum=11&post_id=63156#63156

Unfortunately, Neko never answered my question regarding this contradiction.

> I doubt that anyone gets enough money from the license fees to say
> that *revenue* is their biggest motivation for MorphOS development.

I fail to see anyone said that in this thread.