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This is the same for every ARM board if you want multimedia support. (Because these companies do not allow you to publish their IP) Ofc if you only connect a punch of hard drives to it and a ethernet cable you are not gonna appreciate what possibilities a Raspberry Pi and their quite open software stack are able to offer you. Get a camera and hardware encoding involved in your tinkering and you will have a bad time for sure.

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Uhh, when you actually talk to Allwinner, they are generally pretty helpful unless its not their IP to give. I've emailed Tyle at Allwinner in the past to clear up some chunks of code in the kernel 3.4 BSP, and I found most of the time the code was intended to be under GPLv2, which he clarified.

How is libmmal for the Raspberry Pi's camera libre by the way? The license looks to be proprietary, definitely the opposite of open.

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