You might be surprised how much people in Nokia are reading your comments. Many people more that do not put their comments to talk.maemo.org (maybe, we should call it t.m.o. after all... For example, our manager that it responsible for bringing the next Maemo device to the market globally is listening and interpreting what you say. So, does the director in product management responsible for the next device.

Naturally, we don't make product decision in a instant's notice. It takes a good amount of time from concept to product shipment. And the influence of Maemo Software will actually grow starting from 1st of June when we will become Maemo Devices, when our hardware, software and product integration folks are joined to one unit being able to work together even better and faster.

Whether the business of investing to devices such as pure tablets is attractive enough to keep an organization such as Maemo running is naturally business confidential. But you might have seen that organizations such as UIQ that built an UI on Symbian based devices for Motorola and SonyEriccson was not sustainable. And they had some 400 people to build on top of existing Symbian. They pretty much all got the pink slip in the beginning of the year. We are building Maemo on open source but we do need a decent amount of folks to crunch out attractive devices. Gotta make money to pay those salaries.