I for one would like to know what the disagreement was over (pyside versus pyqt). PyQT is an accepted high-quality language binding with a high-quality PyQT4 book out as well. PyQT is also available everywhere, whereas Pyside is currently linux only (maemo, deb, tgz). PyQT4 also already seemed to work on maemo.

Was it money? Wouldn't think so because Nokia surely threw lots of it to reinvent the Python QT bindings.

Looks to be a license difference, but couldn't Nokia have purchased Riverbank Computing?

Technical requirements were mentioned as a difference, but what does that imply?

Was it intellectual integrity and principles versus big business? I haven't found a reference yet.

This may be an awesome day for Nokia and Maemo, but we may want to bow our heads in remembrance over the apparent marginalization of the original PyQt bindings and developer that served the community long before Nokia even knew how to spell QT.