And what would the price be for two full time AROS coders dammy
That would depend on where the coders are living, I suppose. Cost of living in their area is going to be the major deciding factor on coder's salary. Rough guess based on US factors, I'm guessing mid $30K to lower $40K per coder. West vs East Europe, I really don't know what Euro value would be fair. Russian or Brazilian coders would probaby work cheaper.
IMO, couple of core full time coders (say one kernel/hardware and one GUI) and throw some money into bounties would be the best bang for the buck for DiscreetFX. I do agree, they do need fairly tight control over an OS if they are going to offer a unique package. I just think what they are going to out put for Amiga Inc assets, as deluted and questionable IP it is, would be better spent else where. Hell, if they need name recognition that badly, I would have gone and talked to C= about licensing.
Dammy