They could easily release it for everyone, and they probably will at some point, but right now they're busy working on the version that lives inside companies'

They could easily release it for everyone, and they probably will at some point, but right now they're busy working on the version that lives inside companies' firewalls: http://etherpad.com/ep/about/pricing-eepnet http://etherpad.com/ep/about/pricing-eepnet