i agree with your impression that Maemo was flawed from the beginning, but i don't think it was sabotage on NOKIA's part. i remember reading an article a few weeks ago explaining the evolution of NOKIA & NOKIA's management; one of the key moment (the beginning of the end, so to speak) was about ten yrs ago when the company turned from "technology oriented" with engineers crawling all over the place to a... PROFITABLE company where a lawyer or MBA could become manager. i think Maemo's failure is plain dumb incompetency due, like you point out to lack of technological understanding already reflected about that... if the Maemo community keeps supporting the Maemo customers, maybe NOKIA will keep financing it? is there right now a need to change the name? Maemo is not going to get any new devices (running on real Maemo code), but maybe it is possible to ease the transition by porting as many apps to MeeGo / Harmatan and maybe some new stuff back?