There's enough trolls here already.

As it stands, the pointing fingers at the "other camps" and other snobbish **** is what drives communities into "us or them" type of mentality and it's pretty horrific when it happens.

I support 5 different OS's on a daily basis: OS X, Win2k3 Server, Win2k8 Server, Red Hat Fedora and HP-UX... thank god I don't suffer with AIX any more after last month. Anyway, I'm not so faithful to any OS, they all work once you learn them.

Slagging off some clear n00bs, yeah... that's a way to win. Face it, you love Maemo to death. That's fine too. But sheesh, looking down your noses you tend to forget how flawed Maemo is. Repositories go down - remember when Canola 2 came out? Down. And there's other countless times.

Hell, we've had neophytes come here and the tone was downright nasty from certain people. And with the "sister site" (ok, I never used it) going down, at this rate, I'd tell people to stay the hell away from Maemo unless they want to geek it up for a while and actually learn something. I have my share of people asking me stupid iPhone questions when they see that I have one. I just had somebody ask me how to put music on it - no joke.

But I've seen nothing that states that the openness of Maemo is a sure-shot winner either. Hell, they can't even keep paid for products up-to-date. Let alone, provide a worthwhile alternative that doesn't require obscure repositories or 18 steps to get a possible beta IM program to work right once a change happens in either a server or protocol.

In short, once Maemo goes mainstream; I hope some of you people actually help them instead of look down your nose at them. I'll do my part.... which ain't much.