Therefore we believe that AROS is protected by the law. Patents and header files are a different issue, though. Amiga Inc. Amiga Inc is quite positive about the effort but they are very uneasy about the legal implications. Unfortunately, no legal sound agreement could be made yet besides good intentions on both sides. We expect that AROS will run existing software on the Amiga without problems.
Some parts work.
If you want AROS on PPC, you should wait for MorphOS because the people behind MorphOS are using AROS to fill in the missing parts in their Amiga emulator. 22.09.2001 UAE is an A500 emulator. Therefore AROS is much faster than UAE, but UAE has more software. We are in loose contact with the author of UAE and there is a good chance that code for UAE will appear in AROS and vice versa. For example, UAE is interested in the source for the OS because it could run some apps much faster if it could replace the OS calls by native code.