AROS is slightly different in that it was not really part of the above scenario, but it too cannot balance the userbase/developer equation. At the moment AROS is only used by its developers, and because the developers don't acknowledge the needs of potential ordinary users, this is unlikely to ever change - in turn resulting in the fact that the developer base cannot increase to make more software available for it, which in turn would attract users. Catch 22.
You keep saying AROS is nothing but developers, yet I am not a developer. I also know of others who are clearly not developers either. So clearly, we *users* of AROS do exist within the AROS community.
Dammy