Do you think Flowplayer is a charity?
No, its a commercial business. 2 brothers spend their entire day building this website, all the surrounding tools, and the VERY good video player for you to use for free.
All they ask in return is that a small % of their commercial users pay a license fee. If this commercial license, didn't exist, then there would be NO open source player.
$95 to add your own commercial branding, you think this is expensive? My friend, $95 (about £60) to a commercial venture is peanuts. If you think that is expensive for thousands of lines of quality AS3 code then you're client (or you, or both) is going to get a BIG shock when you come up against any time in the industry when you need to assess the value of software.
And $35 for support is expensive to you? Perhaps your used to getting all your work from these guys:
https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
We ALSO produce bespoke plugins for Flowplayer, and if any of our clients came to us and the problem for them was that a Flowplayer license was $95, then I'd tell them they were in the wrong industry.
This forum is full of friendly users who offer up their spare time to offer P2P support for free. However, the time of the core FP team is much more valuable spent on the main product. If they are to offer personal support too, then sure why shouldn't you pay for that?
Sheez...