the big diff between the nokia phones and the nokia tablets is the os.

symbian is not openly available for just about anyone (yet). linux is. so when one end up tying down linux to the whim of nokia, one start to understand the orthodoxy of RMS.

now the recently announced open driver for the wifi helps in some way. but there are still much of the tablets firmware thats under nokia control, and that will be hard to replace if one wanted a fully open maemo to maintain after nokia have pulled the plug on official support of the tablets.