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GitHub - omegaui/linux-voice-control: Your personal, fully customization, Linux Voice Control Assistant. (github.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Don't get me started with Mycroft. I bought the 1st gen device and invested a year of my life writing the first incarnation of Majel built on top of it. When it was ready to share I announced it in their internal developers group and was attacked repeatedly for using the AGPL instead of a licence that'd let them steal and privatise it. Here I was offering a year's worth of free labour (and publicity, the project exploded on Reddit), and all they could say was: "use the MIT license so we don't have to contribute anything".

I'm still bitter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is there still a team working on mycroft or it's vanished ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I'm not sure. https://mycroft.ai/ appears to be gone, redirected to https://community.openconversational.ai/. Since the Mycroft devices depended on a central server for configuration (you pushed your config to their website which in turn relayed environment variables to your code), my guess is that the project is dead, but like all good Free software, still out there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Hue, Mycrotch

I know it's a character from Sherlock Holmes, but it's still such a terrible name.