Yes! It does seem to be a bad thing to be in demand of money in top of being closed sourced.
MOS seems to have a lot of dedicated users who wants to get involved but cant.
And thats why it would be a good thing to put efforts into AROS. Those bits and pieces of AROS is available for anyone including the MOS/OS4 developers.

Efforts that goes into AROS will benefit the Amiga community wherever its heading. If you want to ensure that your software does not follow an OS in the grave, port your stuff to AROS in addition to MorphOS. MorphOS´s path seems unclear for the moment. Aros will allways be there for anyone of us in the meantime.

Daniel (AROS marketing department)