i dont know what "Bailing Out" is actually supposed to mean...
i own many types of computers and i use many OS's, so for me "Bailing Out" would mean throwing out my A4000T and some of my other amigas and stuff, and only using all my other computers
anybody can use an amiga in addition to their ibm-pc installed with ms-windows! there is no need for throwing it away just to use somthing else
using linux all of a sudden, even on different hardware, does not have to mean you are leaving the amiga community!