Sam wrote: > I can see a path to accomplishing this: > 1) pull over a closed source engine > 2) create the FOSS GUI for Linux that implements (1), and sends speech-data back to a central database (such as VoxForge) > 3) Once this database is suitably populated, we can crank up Sphinx, and we will have everything FOSS. This is called stealing. Sam wrote: > 1. Many people have copies of Vista. It comes with nearly every new PC. Many linux users will have a Vista DVD. The same is not true for Dragon. > You are wrong. Many people don't have that junk and don't want it to begin with.