May have been, but that didn't benefit Maemo. In fact, the dominance of Symbian within Nokia meant that they (the OPK management) didn't fund Maemo as strongly as they should have. Thus, when Elop walked in, he could have dismissed Maemo/MeeGo as easily as he had, point to Symbian and show them how much money it cost for R&D to keep Symbian competitive and seemingly do it with the blessing of the Board of Directors.

That... was the case and that led to the current situation where Microsoft is still their push in terms of marketing and press releases and Maemo/MeeGo and Symbian are all pushed to the wayside.

Blaming Elop is only looking at what he had left to deal with in regards to the undervalued, underfunded yet pretty damn driven Maemo/MeeGo teams that have gone to Jolla and other places. Qt has been purchased by Digia and that means that it will invariably not have the funding that a healthier Nokia could have given it.

So Tomi Ahonen roasting Elop's decisions - nothing new. He'd probably roast OPK too if he hadn't in the past (I seriously don't know). And pretty much he'd roast anybody else making decisions not named Tomi Ahonen.

Being number 1 doesn't mean you're infallible. It means you have further to fall down...