Hmm, generally management don't care about legacy projects (unless customers make a REALLY BIG fuss). This translates into the developers been given new tasks. If these new tasks use the same code base as the RIO Car then your right I can see we may be in luck (though I can’t see Sonic Blue doing any QA on the releases!) however normally source code is branched for different products and at some point they diverge so much it is not worthwhile trying to update legacy code unless someone has a personal interest.

I'm just trying to figure out if we are in that position now.

Don't get me wrong I only recently purchased my Rio and I did so in the full knowledge that it would be without future upgrades. I was just hoping that Sonic Blue might see fit to release the full source code at some point in time so I can tweak it :-)