I think what people are worried about is the delicate balance between open source and profit. Nokia has an amazing opportunity to bring open source to phones before a single closed-source OS takes over like it did with PCs. Linux on PCs faces a much steeper uphill battle. People hope that Nokia will prove the commercial viability of an open source system, which will lead the way to greater acceptance of open source in PCs and other products.

I personally believe the balance between open source and profit to be extremely delicate... just look what happened to lcuk over the past week. This is how much people care about open source.

One top-level employee could easily throw off this balance.