It's not an alternative to NMEA, thought it definitely started as an open source replacement of NMEA. Cooler heads prevailed and the NMEA body opened some of th

It's not an alternative to NMEA, thought it definitely started as an open source replacement of NMEA. Cooler heads prevailed and the NMEA body opened some of the IP to SignalK developers. So instead of the opensource hardware that used SignalK as originally envisioned we have the same NMEA based proprietary hardware that SignalK ingest and convert to JSON.