Old News, This has already been discussed on Amiga.org
refer to my previous posting
http://amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3554 If I were to develope a decent OS that runs on most peoples current computers what are my chances of getting people to use it?
Not unless you could get it to ship w/ the (mass market "sheep" ) computer pre-installed or dual-bootable.
reference the linux struggles in such an environment.
biggest obstacle imho = pervasiveness