Well, that's a mighty convenient way to dismiss people who've been interested and following all along but didn't want to waste their money on the deranged direction of Maemo/MeeGo. Just the same, you still missed his point about how it should exclude participation. I hardly think exclusivity would be beneficial. Just look at how well Nokia has done by only listening to the dwindling number of people who've continued to blindly purchase their products.

As much as I've gotten to like Android and most people seem to think I'm married to it, I want to disagree. They would be FAR better served by admitting a mistake with the Windows Platform exclusivity and instead dig back into their far more progressive technologies where they were ALREADY ahead of most competitiors--namely Maemo and the tablets. Nokia has already announced they want to make a Windows Mobile tablet. You KNOW this is already a tragic decision. It's only very RECENTLY that tablets are incredibly popular and tying them to your wireless business (i.e. tethering to your cell phones for wireless ANYWHERE, in addition to the plethora of wifi availability in general) and services as a portable workhorse using Maemo and Linux would be a far smarter move. Windows has soured enough customers on the desktop and it's only on so many through underhanded business tactics, it's barely made a dent in any other category (servers, mobile, etc). Nokia SHOULD have played it smart and helped BURY a competitor instead of making sloppy sex with it and mixing two horribly failing DNA's while casting away all the good things they HAD done.

Had you been around long enough to remember, you might have experienced Maemo on its UPSWING rather than dismiss the folks that came in during the InternetTabletTalk days where we saw what a successful formula looked like. Perhaps that might even be reason to dismiss all the NEW people that only bought into Nokia within the last two years. Hmmmm!

At any rate--I responded, but this hardly has anything to do with the Maemo Council debate.

Can we please dispense with the nationalistic insults?