@sdyates
Is AROS the proper way to move forward? In my opinion, yes and no.
Yes because it keeps on getting stronger and provides us with an opportunity to avoid legal/financial complications.
No because I would like to see as much Amiga development as possible, and even if all Amiga users chose to support AROS, the developers of OS4 and MorphOS are unlikely to start developing for it.
In other words, lets support all Amiga projects, commercial and open source. That way, if/when the commercial stuff falls away we'll have a brilliant open source OS to work with.