Quim, first I apologise to you personally for having treated you as the "public face of Maemo Software". Jaffa pointed this out and he's right. Nevertheless it's inevitable, just as we hold the waiter responsible for our food even though it's the chef who cooks it.

Sure, we're not asking you to speculate. We're asking Nokia to announce some information.

Developers worry because we need to know that we won't be wasting our time developing. I got burned once, spending over a thousand hours on an open source project written in the Eiffel programming language (that's where my username comes from) before the compiler vendor effectively ruined the niche.

Developers worry because there are hints of radical change in directions that might possibly make the N900 un-useful to us. There are also some wonderful things that could happen, but until we see them we can't develop for them.

If Nokia wants a successful open source product, they need to be much more open. No two ways about it. As that's not happening, I'm going to use my N800 until it breaks, but develop for Android for the future because it will provide a good choice of devices.

It's a sad but necessary decision for me. Back in July several people said "Just wait for the Maemo summit, something awesome is going to happen" but it didn't. There's still nothing more than "Trust us". No way. Trust has to be earned, not blindly demanded.

Regards,
Roger