i would rather compare it with the 1st american cars of the 70s after the 1st oil crisis;
still big (heavy) cars, but with too small engines to really quick it.
and even though the community has done a lot to improve the performances nonetheless, we are still left with a heavy device that has performance issues because we don't have (all) the blueprints, indeed.

capitalistic?
indeed, NOKIA is quoted on stock exchange & has to make money to make their stockholders happy. i don't think NOKIA earned much with Maemo, even though they invested quite a bit in it :|
ROI and OSS? not for NOKIA, nope

PS: updating the title of the thread?

PPS: i switched to openSUSE five years ago, so, yes, i like OSS very much too and is one of the reasons i like the N900, indeed