I do understand all of this, Tommi. I've sent several emails to Nokia in the past several months, though, and they've all been ignored. That's not the case at ITT, though, and I'm sure you understand that I'm merely walking through the first door that I can find open.
At Maemo the explanation given under 'Contributing Applications' says this; "If you have written an application using the maemo development platform and would like to announce it then visit our Application Catalog wiki page and add some information about your project." Dr. Ari Jaaksi has also stated that "The goal of the organization is to provide Nokia with the best possible open source based technology and collaborate directly with various open source projects."

I have been building and improving an application-specific development framework for remote X apps, for many years, apps which will work elegantly on the 770. These apps require and thrive on any handheld touchscreen device that has X on it. It's been proprietary but I'm preparing to open much of it up and the way it's built doesn't have anything to do with Maemo, so I am on another playing field than Maemo. Whether all of it will ever be open source is far from settled. Freeing software is a process of many steps when it involves the complex issues of vertical market software solutions. Maemo and open source simply don't address them. This is why there have to be other issues, each with its own focus, and each different than what Maemo is designed to do.

I understand why Maemo was built and it is absolutely necessary, but I'm in a unique position of needing (and having) a development framework that satisfies the requirements of developing software for at least some vertical markets. If Maemo was built as "THE" way for people to develop the apps that make the 770 useful, then it simply turns out that because of X there is no reason for the 770 to be limited to what Maemo can do for it. Let me put it this way - if the 770 is to be many things to many people, and I think it has to be, then it it will have to be exploitable in ways that neither Nokia nor Maemo could ever have been able to imagine.