Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
- I don't believe that Australia is big enough for two organizations which cover so much common ground.
- It confuses the Establishment. We've heard several times from AGIMO, for example, that they'd far rather deal with only one open source group.
I have expressed my opinion of that argument in an earlier email.
- It also makes it easier to get sponsors for conferences and things.
- (only now) AUUG no longer seems capable of surviving by itself.
This seems to be the real motivation here.
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- AUUG caters for proprietary UNIX.
This last one is the real issue. I personally think it's a thing that a successor organization could handle. You only need to look at the conference programmes for the last few years to see that just about everything has been Open Source. About the only exception has been MacOS X. What do people think of that?
Mikal