Is this a hint that you’d be able to finetune the OS in a JJOS kind of way after Elektron wash their hands of it? I’d love to see someone do that!! [/quote]
Moonbeams answer:
Love to do that and I’m sure that I would have fun, or a mental breakdown trying… I know that I’ve got a list of things I’d want to do… sure, why not? 
Pragmatic answer:
Elektron have a whole bunch of developers, engineers et al, with a whole bunch of very serious and varied skills, no question there.
They are a bunch of very intelligent, highly skilled and passionate people… no doubt they have their very good reasons for everything, why the OS is the way it is, why it was desgined the way it is, its limitations etc.
Its amazingly easy, regardless of field/discipline/scenario etc, to throw assumptions and presumptions around… with full clarity and knowledge, the truth can often be quite different.
Regardless… I wouldn’t hold your breath on that happening any time soon… I’d either have to:
a) Go work for Elektron, and be put in charge of Octatrack development. Refer the pragmatic answer re skills/resources. They’re better then me.
b) Be given the OS, doco, code etc. Pretty much zero chance of that happening. Can’t imagine any company doing that, no?
c) Rewrite the entire OS from scratch… umm… thats complicated, and who’s going to pay me to do that? Reckon Octatrack users are going to kickstart a year or two’s worth of my salary to do that?
That, and I’d much rather design and build my own hardware, from scratch then do that project… to the kickstarter!
PS: JJOS is a total anomaly. My understanding is the JJOS guy used to work for Akai on the MPC’s for like 10 years… thats a world of difference when you have all that knowldege, have been working on the same hardware, code, tools etc then attempting such a project from scratch.