I think you have some great ideas for AROS. I think AROS is a great idea, but as you said, it needs some capital. I think your RED HAT idea rocks.
I hope however, that OS4 can be salvaged. I hope AI doesn't get it as I don't think they will do anything with it. Hyperion got frustrated because they were getting messed with so much. I think we should support Hyperion with emails and find out what really happened before we condemn them. I hate OSX since 10.4. I always thought you should be able to have a quick real time like OS without all the bloat and beachballs. QNX was the best option but stupid Gateway wanted linux. That was foolish. The PPC still has some life. They need to get the powr efficient going. It is a nice chip. Alpha CPU team and other great CPU people working on it. INTEL is competing against apple. IF only OS4 could have come out while first version of OSX was still out. Everyone hated OSX then. It has been the only game in town besides Microsoft. I don't like it. OS4 is better in many ways. Syllable is multi user. It has a long way to go though to be usable every day. Atheos file system rocks, though. Great ideas. We do need to support Hyperion. And in some form try to get Amiga Inc to treat them fairly. Then we can salvage things yet. There is definitely a need for a small, fast OS that can be used everyday. We must try to support them by giving some small amount and trying to help them gauge interest. Let us send them some support on the forums too. They are getting rocked. Let's try to bring them together for the sake of the community if possible.
