Unless there's something not quite right about it... maybe afraid of also getting sued by Oracle (like Google) if they release it? Thus, it would make sense that they would INSIST that Nokia be the customer buying for their handsets so that they can share the responsibility in a lawsuit? I don't know.. I just find it odd that they didn't sell it as a product to customers back when they supposedly had one for the N900 already.

Customers aren't treated well either--THAT also hurts the individual developers who hope to sell to prospective consumers. Nokia is failing from top to bottom. Incredible.

The problem was choosing to play the open-source card... then doing their damnest to close it up as tight as they could manage within decent time--even REPEATEDLY choosing components that weren't open-source friendly. They put so much effort into writing closed-source applications on top of the OS that you couldn't even remove without damaging the OS's functionality. Their failure can be chalked up to simply closed-minded behavior pretending to be open-minded. They wanted community but they did everything to ignore it--they don't even officially host anything Maemo, and don't bother to listen to customers or read forums. They puffer up openness but they refused to open up code and didn't want to fix many things that were reported as bugs/requests. There weren't regular security updates and you couldn't depend on Nokia for contracts, support or even spare parts.

Simply put, they pretended to adopt Linux but they didn't actually adopt any of the successful methodologies from Linux that have benefited commercial entities like Red Hat, Canonical, IBM and so on.

MeeGo SEEMED like a move in the right direction--but I *KNEW* early on that they would screw this up. I remember saying repeatedly that I LIKED what I kept hearing about it, and it was a great hope--but I couldn't shake the feeling that they'd screw it up big one way or another. So far, that appears to be the case.