Hello.
So Gibson screwed us. The Sonar we’ve been using for ages is dead. I think we’ve accepted that and we’re moving on.
My question is simple: Ok. Sonar is not going to come back in any commercially available form. So can the code be picked up and turned into one of the many amazing open-source platforms out there? The platform is great. It’s stable. It’s got a following. But it has issues and places where it needs expansion (video integration/codecs, for example). Is this something that can be done? Even just patches to keep up with major OS/hardware changes?
I’m not sure the legalities of taking over a dead system. If it’s a rights purchase issue, I’d bet we could crowdsource the funding to keep Sonar alive.

Thoughts?

You are about 2.5 months late to that discussion that already took plce.
 
As Dana Carvey portraying George H. W. Bush once said, "Ain't goan happen!".
 

I'm not assuming Sonar is dead until the servers are shut down. I prefer to think of Sonar as in a coma.

Even tho Sonar seems to be in it's grave there's hope.       faint hope 

I don't think Sonar will ever be open source.

I don't either but boy I'd fix the console view prochannel act that last worked in x3 first.