I perhaps made it a bit too vague in an effort to make it applicable outside my specific case (I work on a pure-managed OS focused on desktop/mobile applications).  Even though I fully believe in the project, the chances of it ever becoming the Next Big OS (TM) are slim to nil, so I'm curious if any sane investor would touch it.  Obviously there's a profit to be made with it in certain niches, but I don't know if that would be big enough for anyone to fund it.