[Consortium] OpenUp your Concept

[Daniel James]

Hi Robin,

> However, "Linux" is a well-known established name, that many
> non-technical people know and associate with the spirit of "FLOSS".

I recall when Richard Stallman made the same objection to the 
linuxaudio.org name, I pointed out that our mission is very much to do 
with the low-latency Linux kernel, ALSA, and other components that are 
exclusive to GNU/Linux. Other people might want to build Debian on 
FreeBSD's kernel or the Hurd, but as far as I'm aware, high quality 
audio performance is not even on the radar of these other projects, let 
alone known to be working.

As for Free Software applications on Windows or OS X, they are fine for 
those users, but there probably wouldn't be a Sourceforge, or any libre 
cross-platform GUI toolkits for them to use if it wasn't for the 
GNU/Linux phenomenon. We haven't come this far with GNU/Linux to then 
say that the operating system that people use is unimportant.

Cheers!

Daniel