Just an idea, and it is unlikely that SBLU will agree to it, but what if we found one or two people that are willing to donate their time to the development of the empeg software for free. They would sign a contract with SBLU/empeg, which is basically an NDA that allows the person to enhance the current code base of the empeg car software and to release the binaries of this to the public.
Those people might get some donations from other empeg owners (such as free lenses, a free tuner module (built from GODs kits)), but absolutely no money from SBLU. On the other hand those people would not release any internals from the codebase (such as references to other projects) to anyone but the empeg employees.

This might be OK for SBLU even though chances are low. But if it were OK with them, we would get software releases more often.

There is another thing SBLU should think about: The empeg (and riocar) where always advertized with a set of tuner features that are still not supported in a stable software release. This really upsets quite a few customers who might think twice before buying another SBLU product which is advertised with "future" features, because those "future" features might as well be seen as imaginary features.

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