I would join the project as a dev if you actually want to give it a try 
Want to get rid of Windows.. and Mac is ever worse.
The only thing that holds me back on switching to Linux, is a lot of windows-only audio stuff, like the Virtus Ti drivers.
I don't think that we can expect any help from Access, but also don't think that we need it. reverse engineering ftw.. *g*
Let me know if there is github / sourceforge / .. => if the project has been kicked off. Would be happy to help