> People who worked on it, and who I personally knew were given fairly generous severance packages so they would stay and finish N9 after the news of nokia killing MeeGo were announced to the workers.
Key members of the team, ones that got offers from competitors the moment Nokia announced that MeeGo is being killed left pretty much immediately after announcement.

Do you treat that as:
1) Maemo/meego developers were intelligent enough to abandon ship ("burning platform") and have some other way to support themselves/families
2) Traitors to the opensource community? (working for Nokia on closed source components all the time makes this unlikely)

Really unsure what impression you are trying to achieve by this quote