Personally, I do not believe that getting 100% "open" state of Maemo is possible via any "transfer" of IP from Nokia, even if they would like to. Simply put, they're not owners of many parts, so no ammount of begging/business prroposals is going to make it happen.

^This doubt include ideas of buying IP from Nokia in case it went bankrupt - I hardly can imagine this being possible, and even if, the price would be insane for FOSS community. Not to mention, that even *if* we would miraculously have millions of $$$ available, I would prefer to use it for re-writing replacements/designing own device from scratch, instead of paying for opening "decades" old code
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So, overall, such ideas seems a little abstract to me.

Also, even if we put aside current positive boost in cooperation with Nokia, I'm perfectly sure that - in case of "doomsday" or separation scenario - all Council/Community can do for current code is to keep it available, both psychically and legally (OBS repos etc), then, we would be in position where we *must* go our own way into future. Not much to be scavenged from currently closed bits, anyway.

Disclaimer - I do not believe in any doomsday soon. Yet, I think part of Council's responsibility is to have failsafe/plan B realistic plans at hand.

/Estel

//Edit
SD69, could You finally accept nomination? Pleeease?