Seriously ratchet, your last post is even worse than most other posts I´ve seen from you o.O
It is perfectly fine to ask for money to be able to go open source, because as far as I understand his post, he is developing neoaxis for a living, with no other job. Now he has the choice to either get a new job and go open source without supporting his engine any further, which would mean an instant death to neoaxis, or he can collect enough money to keep developing the engine on an open source basis as a (nearly) fulltime job for a couple of years and until then, there might also be some kind of active developing community to keep on working after that period.

Ogre and Irrlicht are btw just graphics engines, without physics, audio, pathfinding, editors, ... And to be honest, they aren´t even good.