<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Paul Gear <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@libertysys.com.au" target="_blank">paul@libertysys.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 26/04/12 12:20, Chris Neugebauer wrote:<br>
> ...<br>
<div class="im">> I don't expect that at all. What I do expect is that I wouldn't have<br>
> to explain that "The money is not going to Linux". Obviously, I<br>
> understand the difference between due diligence, and dealing with<br>
> unfounded confusion.<br>
<br>
</div>Once again, I'm curious: what sort of sponsor would have trouble with<br>
excess profits going to Linux Australia</blockquote><div><br></div><div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">Chris hasn't said that anyone has trouble with profits going to Linux Australia. He's said he repeatedly has to explain why a body which obviously (it's right there in the name) only cares about Linux would want to run an event that talks about FOSS that runs on other OSes.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Even if Chris is able to explain this to every single potential sponsor[1] and they all individually eventually understand that they're actually free to talk about Python running on any platform at all, it's still a colossal waste of time that could easily be avoid with a different name.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">[1] But to paraphrase Peter Lieverdink: <span style>It's not about the sponsors who contact you and give you the chance to explain what the "Linux" on the website actually means; </span><span style>It's about the potential sponsors that get confused by "Linux" on the website/ prospectus and never contact you at all.</span></div>