It feels pretty dead to me at this point. That is not to say there is no hope for it.
As a customer, $80 is a good price for a completed, user-friendly product with the capabilities advertised for the Ducky. But for a budding open source project with poor developer communication? Not worth the money.
As an unpaid contributor, my time is the most valuable thing I give. Duplication of effort is a complete waste of my time. I could spend my time working on fixing the Linux compatibility issue. But since Darren posted weeks ago that he was testing a FW with Linux support, I'm not interested in wasting my time on it. Why isn't the previously referenced beta FW in the repository for others to help test, find bugs, and submit patches? This is how open source works. Or is supposed to work. So, what we have here is not really an example of working open source.
Until the development and communication process is fixed, the Ducky will not mature into the kind of product that I want to use or support.