Hi Gang,

I'm writing a story about this entire episode for my blog (www.cnet.com/surveillance-state), as I think it's really interesting, if cruelly ironic.

While the company's intentions were great, the implementation of this program seems to have resulted in the company doing significant harm to its community relations. The very people who should have had the device soonest have been made to wait the longest.

Even worse, the deafening silence from Nokia on the issue is particularly troubling.

I called up one of Nokia's USA Multimedia PR people and asked for a comment. She said she'd call Finland and get back to me tomorrow.

If any Maemo developers are interested in being interviewed for this article, I'd really appreciate it if you could send me an email (csoghoian AT gmail DOT com).

Cheers,

Chris

(Disclaimer: I'm also one of the lucky 810 discount code recipients.. so I have a vested interest in getting this all sorted out).