The 'AUUG is dead' song has been sung before, but in recent years the organization has experiences a slight resurgence in membership, according to AUUG president David Purdue.

In response to this, Linux Australia (LA) member and software freedom advocate Jeff Waugh commented on his blog that a combined AUUG-LA could even change its name to something that reflects the broader open source interests of the two groups.

"'Linux' does not even remotely represent the depth of the organization's membership or their interests," Waugh wrote, adding the name Linux Australia is "hideously exclusive".

"Let's say what we mean by changing the name of the organization to better reflect our aims. It could be Open Source Australia or Open Source Community Australia to denote our partnership with Open Source Industry Australia."

This change would better represent some of AUUG's membership "refugees", who love open source and free software, but don't necessarily use the Linux kernel "to do their loving", according to Waugh.