Arguing against open source using a mostly closed-source example won't take you very far, you know...

The N900 could have something much bigger than it is if only 100% of it's software and drivers were available. Suuure, some other evil small-time asian company could come around and put the whole suite into a cheap device and sell nokia's hard work around their market for little to no cost...

Oh, but then Maemo would spread around like wild-fire, there would be like a frakkload of "ApPs" floating around, enough to truly call it a plague. You know, Maemo'd probably be everywhere, and an, what's the name of that thing again... Oh! ecosystem would like blossom out of it.

Dude, seriously, how could that hurt someone? In fact, there's even a certain "Big Two" company that has done something very similar...

So, I'm trying hard to see open-source not working... All I'm seeing is a short-sighted company.