Actually, especialy lately, you're seeing almost nobody working for NASA anymore. I see parallels here. I also see this... which might be relevant to his point. And MAN does it make a sad laugh to read: http://wiki.maemo.org/Why_the_closed...sed_components Last I checked, bugtracker was already being used to make a bunch of requests to open things up and the Maemo wiki itself already lists a bunch of the closed components as well as reasons for open-sourcing and procedures for these requests: http://wiki.maemo.org/Open_developme...hange_requests Just some light reading--maybe it'll help with ideas, too. Mind you, I'm sure we've already gone through this before and they were probably denied--irony, considering the reasons for open-sourcing they gave us. Just the same, I like your idea. Can we have a page for that on Maemo.org's wiki? It would seem like the right central place for it.