- If OS4 was gone, there would be less 3rd party developers interested in AmigaNG, because OS4 userbase is bigger than ours, so they would have even less interest in coding for our system (there are already a lot 3rd party amiga ng devs avoiding morphos).

- Some MorphOS users would lose their only reason to discuss on boards like this. OS4 community is pretty active and lively compared to our one. So it would get rather quiet here.

- Then of course our developers would lose some part of their motivation due to lack of competition.

But on the other side, the MorphOS community is probably as dead as it gets. There is no real spirit here, no actions taken and no momemtum. No support for 3rd party devs, no feedback and not any interest in motivating other developers. All the main impulses are coming from the MorphOS Team. They release something new and people wake up, just to go sleeping again and waiting for a new release. Or in other words: When the MorphOS Team quits there will be nobody left interested or caring about this operating system.

my opinion.