To be honest, I neither had nor I have now any particular interest in what the foundation is for or in what it does exactly.

My interest is in Maemo and in the N900, and most importantly in their interesection. If Nokia apparently *required* some sort of legal entity in order to transfer ownership of the domain name, then I obviously agree(d) that a foundation was necessary.

Now I still have not heard or read a single argument besides the DNS transfer that would "convince" me that a foundation is necessary.

If I was a foundation member or director or whatever-you-call-it I would focus on DNS and then declare the foundation as unnecessary, as long as no other raison d'être has been identified or shows up at some point.

Hence my disappointment with the foundation, and in particular with its sole member, Rob, who, based merely on his written words (as I don't know him personally), seems to have a bigger, "master", plan for this so-called foundation.

This I find contrary to the spirit of the foundation as well as to the expectations of the community. And by community I mean the people involved in maemo.org.

Given that the foundation was appropriately *not* named Maemo foundation, I suggest that once the maemo.org DNS entries point to the new server, the foundation can disjoin itself from its original goal and pursue other, perhaps grander, ambitions unrelated to Maemo and to maemo.org.

There is obviously a non-zero probability that *I* am missing something here. I would thus appreciate it if other *maemo-relevant* functions of the foundation, that is besides the DNS transfer, could be enumerated, perhaps in this very thread.

Thank you. And sorry for the long post.