Ah, good song.

From an entirely philosophical point of view, consider that many of the people involved have grown up in the Linux & related open source communities and helped build this ecosystem and worked to get us where we are.

So, MeeGo's really the best shot (and last, I'd say) for having a mobile platform for all these future devices that's actually real GNU/Linux, instead of something that really is the biggest NIH around (Android) and ignoring most of the mobile work being done in the past in open source. So that's why people are passionate about this. If we don't strike now, we're out.

And if MeeGo fails, well, we can all go home and leave the stage and never see 'real' Linux on the devices that'd make up our future. If it fails, all we've contributed during the years have been for nothing.

I think we're on the right path because of the interest, personally. But doubt is of course always there..