What the F***!

[Iggy]

and that can mean something entirely different in the USA...  

Yes, even my wife would agree, woodies are ALWAYS in style.

[Iggy]

I don't know why you guys keep bringing up AROS in relation to CUSA. Yes Altman has admitted exploring it and has dismissed it as not ready. Since they haven't reached a 1.0 distribution yet this isn't unfair.
But as has been mentioned before, Hyperion's settlement with AInc. gives them sole right to use 3.1 to develop 4.0, 5.0 and beyond and specifically forbids AInc from creating an OS that has any similarity to those products. This would prevent AInc from licensing such rights as well.
Whether Barry has sought the right to use the Workbench name or not is unknown (it could be considered an abandoned trademark as work has not progressed under that name in decades).
And running emulation software under the WB5 name is likely to be legal. But a new OS that even superficially resembles OS4? Not going to happen with the Amiga name attached to it. So AROS is out.
Buyers of CUSA hardware could load AROS on to their new hardware, but distribution of AROS is a potential point for litigation.

[Iggy]

I don't know. My A1200 does just fine without memory protection. Runs stable and for months at time. AROS, what this is their stated goal, but in other ways AROS is beyond what 3.1 is.

Really, it would make more sence to bitch about the state of Amiga OS 4 and/or Morphos.

Things are what they are. Don't like it, Leave or work to make it better.

What is wrong with the state of AOS4 or MorphOS?
Both are more stable than AROS.
Both have passed from the beta stage AROS persistently lingers in and are available as reliable commercially available products.
I can appreciate the fractious nature of this divide (PPC vs. X86), but when AROS reaches the level of reliability that either of the two existing PPC OS' already have then I'll be willing to listen to comparisons.
Right now, their is no comparison, AOS4 and MorphOS work. AROS  is incomplete and unpolished.

[Iggy]

ABI-V1 alpha release, when that's reached they will have completed something I have (in the past) doubted would ever be finished.
So yes, I would give AROS the nod as number 2 in that placement (with a real possibility of gaining number 1 position as it improves).
But as all three OS share a common base, I'm not sure its even fair to consider them as competitors, rather there branches of a common tree.
Pick your flavor and run with it.
All seem to have a promising future.
Its hard to believe there are this many options this far after the 'demise' of the Amiga.
For a 'dead' system, there sure is a lot of development going on.