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Originally Posted by Peet View Post
Sure, there could always be an alternative or community-based "MerGo" distribution or few, but the Intel/Moblin team is still in charge of the official, supported MeeGo platform.

Just yesterday I came across a new-fangled edition of Android which was released by some enterprising pseudonym-using russian hacker. Some XDA-based hackers/crackers (no disrespect intended) will load it no questions asked, as will a few unwashed newbies, but personally I'd be very wary/aware of potential foul play.

Same uncertainty principle will apply to most unsupervised variations on the MeeGo theme, meaning that the Intel/Moblin team — as managers of the platform core — will still wield major control on the ARM side support and development of MeeGo.
Really? And did they release the source with it? No? Then its not really ... and here is the important phrase ... OPEN SOURCE. See the word SOURCE there combined with the word OPEN. Comparing someones bundled up android release (Which I should point out, is partially open source) to a true Open Source Linux is like comparing apples to porcupines.
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