cakewalk could come back if the code is legally portable.

I experienced this with a much lesser known DAW, that was purchased by Mackie, then killed off. The original developer got some friends and investors together, and a few years ago, bought the company back and has been successful running it.

The developer is the developer of JUCE and there's other stuff being developed using that code. For example, as far as I understand it, the Roli seaboard continuous controller apps use JUCE.

Anyways, it would seem to me that there's a possibility for Gibson to sell it off. Why they bought it in the first place is a big issue. Spread themselves too thin.

I recall shopping for jobs at Gibson about 15 years ago, and the only engineering jobs they had were software jobs.