Not at all I hope my long answer did not upset anyone either. The reason for the length is as follows:

1. My academic background (or present, in fact) pushes me to have my claims as cited as possible and you cannot do that in few sentences.
2. I call this thread a "memory self-erasing thread" - when you post some fact, people forget it couple posts later and continue with their never ending circle. This thread should have been in off-topic long time ago and I do not want to feed it with multiple posts (as I'm doing now), so it is better to cover as much as possible in a single one.

I thought I answered this in my reply quite well. Warranty is not something that falls out of the sky - Jolla is not a HW company anymore, so they cannot provide it. Intex does not have the infrastructure yet so they decided not to.

I agree that this programme is not necessarily good for Jolla, but all what they are doing is listening to what we were asking them to do - to somehow get few devices to the developer/enthusiast community. It is not a charity - keeping the development alive is, of course, in their best interest as well, as the app ecosystem is crucial for the OS.

However, when you are criticizing that it is a developer programme, but it is open to everyone, how would you choose just the "real" developers?

I was quite upset myself that I did not get chosen for the mysterious tablet development programme and that one of the explanations were that I had apps mostly on OpenRepos and not in the Store. I am really glad they learned from that and are offering the device even to potential developers - the sole act of getting a limited edition device might motivate someone to start coding. Even if there was only one such person, it is worth it.