Maybe you're right, and there will never be an equivalent Open Source replacement for your player, because lots of "techies" won't buy your player as long as you don't publish your source.

Please at least try to help us code our own stuff for the radio. Most of us won't want to replace the player, but develop other fancy stuff for their radio. Please publish ready built cross compilers and document the APIs in all details (with examples), as it will raise the value of your car radio.

If you'd publish the source for the player, you wouldn't compete with your coding customers;
as you'd be the undoubted maintainer of the player, which means that you can (and should) advertise your design goals and refuse patches you don't like.


Raphael Wegmann
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