@qole,

thanks for your sobering but honest post.
whilst it may seem the end of the line for Maemo, Cordia has shown that parts of it (well fremantle and hildon anyway) have a value that will live on well beyond the hardware it was originally designed for.

My N900 spend more time doing duty running Meego CE these days than it does it's original OS, but I know that eventually, even that will pass as the hardware eventually succumbs to being thrashed. Having said that, I am still delighted when I do boot into Fremantle, and am reminded of the many wonderful things about Maemo that i still don't see in their entirety, in other handset on the market. It goes to show that while the hardware may be aging (dare I say obsolete?), the ideas and the implementation/integration of them into the OS are still up there with the best.

Few Linux based OS's live on in their original guise anyway.

With the Nokia/Intel collaboration, Meego was always going to be the final destination/incarnation and I don't see anywhere, that this will really change.
Despite the lack of firm commitment from any of the other major hardware vendors since Nokia dropped their end of the deal, the industry moves too quickly for any of us here to be able to say with certainty that Meego doesn't offer a great way to escape from the software patent/licensing costs that are being imposed on handset manufacturers by the likes of Google and MS.

Intel's investment in Meego continues across a broad range of devices, and I'm sure that once they release high efficiency x86 architecture that will compete with arm, there will be greater reason to develop a "ecosystem" based on common hardware and OS as opposed to the app-store/advertising ecosystem that handset manufacturers and telcos are trying to convince us is the real one......

If anything, Maemo has proven that Mobile Linux works, and for the time being, that's enough for me.