Thanks for the clarification, and for the reminder of the openness of your communication in this thread--you've certainly been much more transparent than OpenPandora was during its troubled beginnings.

My worry has been that some of the spirited community discussion that is off-topic to this thread may have the potential to spill over to negatively impact cooperation between the Neo900 hardware team and those that may want to develop/port the OS and applications.

The strictly-defined hardware goals of the Neo900 aside, I do see some opportunities for the maemo council to encourage development (e.g., coding competition, etc) and interest for the Neo900. Software-side and OS issues tackled for the Neo900 could also benefit the devices running fremantle/harmattan, and vice-versa. I see the effort to reverse engineer fremantle as an example of this sort of cross-polination.

In any case, thanks again for the clarification. As I mentioned in that quote, I am very hopeful about the success of the Neo900 project and the potential it has for injecting some new life into maemo development.