Becuase kim doesnt want to release the source or the binary of his software. Its his right not to.

If he never had in mind to release the software or sell it, why did he post here in the forum? To make everybody jealous? ;-)

Perhaps he wanted to sell it to SonicBlue, or some other vendor rather than to end users?

It's a great pity! ;-(

I thought he was going to sell it, but I guess it didn't work out. Do a search on GPS and his reasoning is in there somewhere. The thread is several months old at least. Its a shame because he had a lot of things figured out already and all that work will have to be duplicated now :-(

Edit: Here is the thread describing his software. http://empeg.comms.net/php/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=prodject&Number=56980&page=1&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=0&fpart=1&vc=1

Sean

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I was the one that originally posted that thread. Unfortunately I haven't heard from Kim in quite a while. I do believe that he intended to sell his software to end users. Unfortunately AFAIK he never found a satisfactory map data source. It is really a shame because his software was very cool, he had obviously put a ton of work into it and it is a shame that it never got released. Of course that is one of the big advantages to open source, once code is out there it can take on a life of its own even if the original developer gives up on it. If I still have his email address I will send him a note to see if he is still working on his project.

-Mike

Yeah, remind him of those good old days... And tell him about this thread here. I really think that nobody would care if we reverse engineer the format of e.g. the Blaupunkt CDs.

cheers, thorsten

I just wanted to ask if you got in contact with Kim?