Does anyone think it will be worth trying to educate the buyers of carrier-degraded Maemo phones? I'm thinking of something along these lines...

A desktop widget (with an enticing name such as "Free Desktop Widget" to encourage users to try it out). When it's running under open-Maemo, it displays the message "I am free!". When it's running under DRM-Maemo, it displays the message "I am shackled". If the user taps on the widget, it then pops up an explanation of how to enable open-Maemo mode.

Authors of open-source Maemo packages could introduce a dependency upon this widget if they liked the idea.

Regards,
Roger