Would it not be better to work together?

[dammy]

People do work together, and when they do you get opensouce projects like AROS and MiniMig

Problem for even open source is that it has to be a modern open source to survive.  I think that is the biggest loadstone for the Amiga community, it's just reimplementation of an old school OS (which was cutting edge at the time).  Until that loadstone is gone, any cooperation is going to be futile.  I know, I just touched a third rail, but once the fog of battle clears and the view of the destruction that the community has gone under for the past 17 years, there is not much left worth fixing, it's time to rebuild.  That means the old has to be torn down for the new.

[dammy]

Imagine the outcry if they said "it's time to tear down the Pyramids (or the local chippy)" some things are classic and timeless and are best left in the hands of the curators and those who truly appreciate them for what they are...

I will point out that the pyramids is where you bury the dead.  I'm not saying anything bad about 68K, it's a good medium that can be emulated and integrated into a next generation system.  My problem is what being called next generation because they are reimplementation of 68K and not next generation.

[dammy]

That's not wholly true; at least one project is a significant leap forward over the original 68k Amigas. Besides, what does "next generation" even mean in this context, and why? If something like NatAmi isn't a "next generation" Amiga project, what would it take to make it one?

I was referring to 68K code, not the actual 68K machines.  There maybe some advancement via NatAmi, but it's not a next generation, just improvements as best as there can be.  To me, Next Generation (for hardware) is modern, if not bleeding edge, technology and it would be expected for the end user to fully use it to it's maximum hardware capabilities.  To be several generations behind in technology but still ahead the Amiga 68K is not Next Generation but who has sunk in the least in the tar pits of irrelevancy.