Or maybe it’s just not a viable product that can support its own cost base?

Two major global corporations have tried and failed. Developers are expensive people to keep fed and watered and it’s pretty obvious the revenue doesn’t support the necessary cost base.

It’s dead as a dodo, I don’t think there could be any clearer message than the offices being closed

Or maybe it’s just not a viable product that can support its own cost base?

Two major global corporations have tried and failed. Developers are expensive people to keep fed and watered and it’s pretty obvious the revenue doesn’t support the necessary cost base.

It’s dead as a dodo, I don’t think there could be any clearer message than the offices being closed

Gibson will hold and protect all of its intellectual property rights on everything it controls until there's a compelling reason to sell/transfer or "other". I'm not holding my breath that another company sees value in an asset that has changed hands numerous times and is still not profitable. 

The offices aren't completely closed...........yet. There is a skeleton crew and the servers are still up.When they tell me it's over I'll believe it. Until then, it ain't over.

Microsoft and NI are the only companies that could make it profitable.  NI could bake deep integration into NKS and their tools, and Microsoft could make it a Windows Garageband with additional, tiered professional versions.  MS would find a way to bake it into their cloud services and make it profitable.
 
Of the two, only NI sounds palatable.

And there is still a future in camera film.....

The servers will be virtual servers in the cloud they may have offered one guy an extra month or something to be available but that will be all

For "open source" discussion. Such peace of software can not be made open source. Gibson only own cakewalk written part of Sonar. And even then, not all that can be published.
 
"SONAR" as a binary file is a "bus output" mixed from tons of different libraries.
 
For an obvious example, look in your Sonar folder... you will see iZotope_Radius library. Not only this library itself is not a property of CW, but any code which use it (so expose the API) can not be published.
 

The creditors will eventually become Gibson's new owners.  If the company is dissolved, they will get to decide what becomes of the remaining assets, including any intellectual property such as software.

I’m sure all the employees saw it coming with the lifelong subscription and I’m sure the developers will have “borrowed” the code on their own servers somewhere ala bitwig so a new version may crop up somewhere via one of them

Or you could just bite the bullet and start backing a new horse with a future for a while