Mind you, I might be wholly incorrect, but my take is that the Linux Foundation made the call to not house any software, be it from vendor or community derived.

In a lot of ways, I can understand that. But I don't get why Meego.com didn't have some contingency plan or why some other similar mechanism was not in place for this type of scenario.

And without knowing how Intel AppUp, Ovi Store or something else that may have been planned but not yet released has been affected, this puts TMO on its deathbed more quickly than before, makes MeeGo.com more about talk (commiseration?) than about repositories and inducing file sharing/code contributions, what does this truly mean to MeeGo?

So... yeah. This basically was the undercuts of undercuts in Maemo 6, MeeGo (as far as Nokia is concerned) and has effectively made the N9 a true island, one release, never probably to get MeeGo 1.3 in October officially type of affair.

Hell. Now I'm more willing to buy one out of sheer curiosity and out of my OCD to complete the Maemo line.

I'm quite sure more intelligent people than myself will sort this out, state it for what it is... I just don't see how this bodes well for anything Maemo or Nokia based MeeGo. But I can admit being horribly short-sighted at this juncture of time.