the question is not whether they can do it (of course they can)

... its whether they make money doing it

Or putting it another way, how many % of ppl do you think actually PURCHASED the game on palm pre before running it on their n900 via preenv ?

come on, be realistic here - as the preenv developer said to my suggestion he put up a paypal donation box so I can donate, on a typical n900 project only about 3 ppl would donate and the effort of putting up a donation box is not worth it.