Agreed... Honestly, IMHO, that's one of the primary reasons Harmattan/MeeGo is not as represented on the board. When Freemantle came around, N8*0 users were upset that they weren't being upgraded to the new system. When the N9 was launched, there was not really a large desire from most N900 holders to jump to MeeGo. Instead there was this mantra from the otherside, saying N900 should update to MeeGo so "we" (being mainly N950/N9 holders) would all be one on platform.

It was the constant insistence that MeeGo would be the way to go, and that anyone working on Freemantle was wasting their time/efforts instead of jumping to MeeGo that caused that bridge to ignite. Nokia shifting things off to it's own little world, with it's own wiki, board, and repository system wasn't helpful to unifying the community either. Sadly, the few people I see coming from the N9 camp that are talking about merging back into Maemo because it "feels like home" are still saying things that promote the idea that MeeGo/Harmattan is "better" because it's newer, and less of a "dead-end", when in reality I think the wind is pointing away from both projects in the long term.

Had you said that a year ago, I would have been right with you. Now? Given the state of MeeGo and friends, I'm thinking there's not much need to really fight it. It's past the point that it will ever have a chance of matching what Maemo5 offers out of the box, making all the verbal talk of moving to MeeGo about as realistic as an N800 user moving to Freemantle. A few may have some hacked version that partially works. But mass adoption won't be happening. (Unless a MeeGo-er just won the MegaBall lottery last week... in which case, you never know.)