gerbick, your feedback is very appreciated! I do see your points. I'm just trying to explain further why the things at Maemo are in the way they are.

For instance, SDKs sit on top of toolkits. This is why the change to the Qt toolkit has such a big impact for the Maemo SDK. And for the Symbian SDK. Remember our announcement in July and the cross-platform strategy.

Now, offering to developers an SDK based on Qt and also simpler runtimes build on top of it, with a simple path for porting apps to Symbian is a very different story that might entice many developers. Not just core Linux developers but also the mobile developers.

About the speed, it could be faster if that OSS code wouldn't be actually developed in several projects out of Nokia and if Maemo would be the one and only platform of this company. However, I personally believe that is thanks to these factors that the Maemo march is powerful, incremental and capable to reach the highest goals.

Yes, it requires more patience and perseverance (but these are good values leading to success, isn't it)