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As far as a solution to the "I want more software" problem, I suppose you could always try to drum up enough money to hire some programmers to create new, totally open source code for the empeg. I don't know what the guys would say to that, but I'm guessing it'd cost a LOT more than 50K.

To pay for this to be done commercially would certainly cost a lot more. You'd need a team about the size of empeg in days gone by (say 8 - 10) working for a year or so to come up with something useful. That's about £2m at market contract rates, or you could hire the team and run it as an entity for about £1m per year.

I've no doubt that good open source player software could be developed by the open source community, but I don't believe there are near enough players in use to reach a sufficiently large audience (of both contributors and users) for such a project to gain impetus.

Rob