2008/11/4 vitamin <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx>: > 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. How on earth is that stealing? Microsoft doesn't own the speech data people have produced and gathered. Please explain your off-hand one-liner. - d.