I just stopped reading this thread... come on guys!

"Meltemi - what a silly name for a OS" - lowbrow discussion - WTF!
Guys, calm down, this is not the name of a OS, it's the name of a project or call it a version of a OS.

It's like Diablo, Fremantle, Harmattan and now Meltemi.

It's like fruits at Windows Phone or sweet desserts at Android. It's just a naming sheme for people unable to keep version numbering in their mind.

And after Nokia stepped back from MeeGo Meltemi is perhaps just called maemo again. Sadly only for cheap low end hardware. But perhaps more than we could expect from a brainless company.