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It wouldn't help you. MeeGo doesn't exist.

Nokia and open source – a trial by fire is a great summary of the situation (other than the author's own "Plan B" in the last few sentences which is somewhat insane).

Andrew Waafa and others who worked with MeeGo on the open-source end reveal things like "Wafaa summarises the problems that developers experienced with Meego as, 'closed-ness, weirdo licensing around trademark and name, and a closed decision making process between Intel and Nokia. Not even partners could get access to decision making. In consequence they did dumb stuff like re-writing the whole networking stack, duplicating as they went. So instead of re-using NetworkManager and improving it, and getting to market fast – they re-wrote, got something that still doesn't work well, failed to push Linux forward, and failed. Repeat that for every technology pick and you get the idea.' "
"ConMan, the replacement for NetworkManager, still lacks many of the basics that users take for granted, such as proper encryption support, Adhoc networking and a usable VPN interface.
"The cynical interpretation among developers was that there was an attitude of: 'Nokia and Intel will always be number one so we have plenty of time – lets get the non-user visible stuff 'perfect'', where the definition of 'perfect' changes every six months.'"

This is what you guys were pinning your hopes on and crying that Elop should just keep plugging away at... "To further confuse the issues, the MeeGo code was a strange amalgamation of Debian, Fedora and openSUSE sources with a melange of unrelated dependencies. 'Because it was such a cluster, with a confusion of old and new libraries, trying to package it was a dependency nightmare,' says Wafaa. 'and some aspects just wouldn't work.'" The article goes on to describe infighting between the Symbian, Maemo, MeeGo, Moblin and Qt camps and how that led to Maemo/MeeGo pretty much starting over every six months with a politically-motivated rewrite. The article makes crystal clear why Elop has zero confidence in Nokia being capable of developing an OS internally anymore. It's also pretty apparent the code is a mess and a design by ever-changing committee. You'd probably better off starting over around another ARM-based Linux port.
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