Because Maemo with a capital M is Nokia, and a lowercase m is a way to differentiate between it and the Nokia trademark.

Yes, I've filed lots of bugs about trademark and copyright usage on the website, so I know better than most. The footer will be changing when the new site goes live.

That's an artifact from when maemo.org was, in fact, the official maemo (with a lowercase m) website. Now we'll have maemo.nokia.com for the users and Maemo @ Forum Nokia for the commercial developers.

Aside from the fact that a lot of money and time has already been invested in maemo.org as the Maemo Community's official trademark and legal entity, and maemo.org is already an established domain with four years of history behind it, maemocommunity.org is long and (largely) pointless.

No, but this is why I've been correcting people when they make the mistake (it behooves both you, as a community member, and Nokia to have two strong, separate trademarks). Eventually enough people will catch on.

Right, which is why there's also a .org on the end there. Don't doubt that Nokia Legal has invested a lot of time in considering the current arrangement.