I'm happy to see abill learning the past few pages. It would've been better if you came in with less abrasive tones and entitlement issues and just ask nicely for questions about maemo's history.

1. Why did the community gather around NIT and maemo, -knowing- it's not perfect and fully open?
- Was there any better alternatives back then?
- Were you in a position to bargain back then?
- It was the leading FOSS mobile development platform with very high market potential, coming from the #1 mobile device producer brand.
- Did you know MeeGo was coming back then? Android would be as big as it is now, etc?

Hindsight is 20/20.

2. Why doesn't Nokia release the sourcecode to the community?
- Maybe it's due to licensing issues from the components used inside.
- Maybe it's due to legal issues, being that maemo is not only a project name but a commercial brandname associated exclusively to Nokia devices.
- Maybe they don't want chinese KIRFs to show up and make use of their investments and make up news headlines.
- Did you EVER ask anyone from Nokia about this or did you just whine whine whine against the community about this, which essentially and obviously wanting the same thing (but seems to understand the subtleties and sophistication of the matter more than you have).

3. Did Nokia gave access to the entire Maemo source code to stskeeps?
- Here is your giant whine thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=73419 and it's a pretty painful memory seeing as it was a big reason that stskeeps left. He tried to communicate with you but you've managed to resist understanding somehow.

I don't know how old you are, but please think twice, thrice before posting undigested questions and comments in public forums. Especially when you're about to make an assumption that everyone in this community are idiots by doing so.

Heck, you may be the biggest one.

ps: no, those are not official answers from anywhere. those are just reasonable line of thoughts to follow, imo.