now now, easy, alien(ware)
was myself writing an answer when the thread got closed.

to (re-)post one of the thoughts;
the admins on that forum seem to have very partial ways.
reminds one how unprofessional this whole site is, alas.
again, if he only knew about it, a good reason for Flop to close down Maemo / MeeGo altogether, for the sole sake of avoiding a customer would end up on this site, even by accident
maybe the only reason this site is still running is that he doesn't even know the difference between MeeGo & Maemo respectively that later exists

this being said, it is a VERY long time since i last connected my N900 to a LostDOS PC to update it using OVI ware or whatever the application is called.
used the "phone suite" mode a couple weeks ago when my cable provider had a hick-up, though

EDIT: granted, update over the air is a progress for iPotatos (pun intended)
even so jailbreak remains a requirement if one wants to do anything but monitor one's CC account being sucked empty by Jobs & Co

EDIT': but yeap, using xxx analogy is probably a quick way to get on the admins' radar
and as they don't seem to have much between the two ears, it's a big chance the thread will get locked