I'll discuss wherever you tell me (except in >400 posts threads)

Hildon is a GTK+ extension and it was created and maintained by GTK+ developers. The GNOME Foundation is the home of all things GTK+, and it's an open community as well. When Nokia announced the shift to Qt, some of us could get a budget to upstream Hildon changes and help GTK+ developers to work on a scenario where their apps would work on top of Harmattan / MeeGo.

The plan was discussed in various places here and at the GNOME Mobile list, and was also discussed at the Maemo Summit in Amsterdam, in a small but full room with a good representation on “people here” that were also familar or directly involved in the GNOME project.

If you have any problem with the process or the result that's fine, but the role of Nokia here was to fund whatever approach the community decided to take, and do the payment through the GNOME Foundation since it was the only legal entity that could take the money - apart from a company, but I didn't want to be Nokia the one selecting it.

That's my point of view of the story.