LMAO at recent comments.

While I agree with you (Dan) on several fronts, my idea hasn't changed.

The fact is Nokia either had:
-bad executives
-bad developers
-both.

The deal with Microsoft actually fixes those mistakes, and helps get an actual product out to customers.

How could Nokia have success with MeeGo?
It would have to fix those problems, both are difficult and completely separate tasks. It's like discovering termites in your foundation of the house.
Do you add more foundations?
Do you build a new foundation while demolishing the old?
Do you simply spray poison and pray it works?
Do you destroy the entire house and start again?

Nokia was in a very delicate situation midyear last year, and they chose the "spray poison" option and after realizing the termites didn't die, they chose to not spend any money fixing it but to scrap the house and build a new one.

My notion with acquiring Palm at April 2010, is in conjunction with adding more foundations. Because that option is the SMARTEST option because it allows you to do several other things like "spray poison" (let Intel continue baking the software) and also gradually remove the old foundations (getting rid of bad executives, developers, designers, code like Python). Nokia could've released WebOS devices with Qt support. Then later build up on that with a much more powerful base (kernel, features, no bugs) trully merging the Moblin into the WebOS and Qt. They'd call it MeeGo 2.0, non-different to Samsung's Bada 2.0 or Symbian Belle. And by that time, there would be an amountable Qt applications that would readily be available.
This is the big picture I am trying to paint, and no it is very probable had Nokia taken the correct (obvious) decisions.

edit: No, their decision did fix it. They scrapped the house and built/building a new one. There is no pissing involved. However, the new house may reek of the smell of Elopiss. Just being literal