Could you please be serious? Since when does an i5 depend on Linux? It's only a relatively small market compared to intel's overall income, and intel *surely* contributes back to the community. They finance an open source support team, provide open source graphics drivers for their CPUs, and open source support tools for their CPU. So it's a "take and give", and it is for me a fair trade. Does any of the income from the vampire go back into open source development? Or is its core open source? I beg your pardon, but I've a bit of a problem with the ethics here.
So AROS guys have no problem in making it work for the x86 platform, but suddenly if a new chip is used on par with amiga, things eventually change... that's odd.