There was something wrong in the creation of Maemo.org right from the beggining and i will try to explain why i say this,

if Maemo.org was to be the official "further" development of Maemo then why was it not seen that closed components were going to create massive problems right from the off so why was it allowed to go from there?.

Many people do not realise that to write an os or implement changes to an os the developer(s) MUST have access to source otherwise it is a pointless excersize, so what happened ? i will explain very easily,

developers set to work on apps etc and then submitted them for approval but what level of approval? to see if the app actually run without conflicts?
whilst all this was going on Nokia must have realised just how this was going to end up especially when it seen all the conflicts and problems occuring due to conflicting code that just did not fit in with the os, and in some cases so serious the device would shut down due to overwriting of critical code.

Now realise Nokia or someone responsible for the creation of Maemo.org made a huge mistake in allowing it to function as it did knowing full well the consequences of holding back essential component drivers which has been explained away as legal crap, not allowed to reverse engineer?, it got to a point when i thought oh my god this is going bad very bad, this was round about a month or so before the last Maemo update from Nokia PR1.3.
At that point there was a multitude of NOFIX and looking within the threads reading all the software conflicts occuring i just knew it was bound for disaster but for some strange reason everyone carried on battling with closed source.

At this point after trying to point out on here the problems, all i got was shot down in flames as if i was insane (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=52788) this is just one of the threads i started way back over a year ago ! and if you look at my history you will see many, all to do with the problems of the N900.

Now we are at the gate of closure and all because the wrong people dealt with the opening of Maemo.org in my opinion because not one was obviously a software or hardware engineer who could visulise what would happen because of closed components.

It is therefore my opinion Nokia never supported Maemo.org at all but in fact made sure it would bring huge problems for Maemo.

Now i would love to know from the council just what will happen to Maemo.org, is it to stay open ? is it to change name or is it to be shut down?.