@Jeffro - I don't think anyone expects them to host commercial plugins in the repository and there never was any intention of doing it with themes.
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/commercial/

I’m pretty sure Matt answered this in my interview with him at WordCamp New York but I can’t remember the answer right now.
Your not thinking of this?
Waybackmachine
Leland: Like Matt said in this interview, commercial plugins are already in the plugin repository. Akismet is the only one I can think of, although I’m sure there would be others as long as they’re 100% GPL compatible.

Listener Poll: Should there be a page on the plugin repository for Commercial GPL plugins?