The latest I've seen on SB and Chapter 11 is that the deal with Denon fell through, and it's going on the auction block.

What're the chances that the engineers who've created such cool stuff in the first place (the Receiver and the empeg car player) might be able to buy back the rights and, maybe, just maybe, open-source it?

I'd LOVE to see an open-source successor to these. I've been looking for a car player (and lusting after navigation systems), but they're just too damned expensive with interfaces that are about 10 years outdated. We've obviously got a thriving community willing to write client and server software for it -- we just need a start on the hardware, at this point.

Or is this just unrealistic? (or are the engineers ready to move on to something completely different?)