Not only this community, but Nokia has poured tons of money and time into open source projects like Linux (the kernel), Mozilla, BlueZ, DBus, GTK, and a dozen other FreeDesktop.org technologies. Maemo was not created with off-the-shelf parts. Nokia put an amazing amount of time into those parts to get them where they needed them and the whole open source community has reaped the benefits.

"Maemo Software"

Make that: "Maemo wouldn't exist." Maemo is a Nokia product and without Nokia, Nokia products don't exist (saying it wouldn't exist in its current form without them is like saying Mac OS X wouldn't without Apple )<

Compared to what exactly? You keep making this assertion but I honestly don't think you're getting Maemo's position within Nokia's lineup. As far as I've been able to divine, the tablets are selling quite a bit better than Nokia planned (10x the initial estimate for the 770 from what I've heard) and Nokia's set to really begin pushing the platform with this generation. All this "aren't selling well" talk is silly both because it's highly subjective. Nokia's clearly happy, we're happing, so what's the problem?

(Been writting this post for the past four hours so appologies if it's a bit disjointed.)