A quote from Wikipedia:

A straw man is a fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue. The basic idea is to "win" an argument by leading attention away from the argument and to another topic.

Maybe I'll explain this to you so you can move on to the actual point of the message and do a proper dismissal of my personal opinion...

The snippet "Since my N800 was obsoleted by the "dangerous" Maemo platform" - as you probably already knew - referred to the unsupported status of the Maemo 4 devices, with a measure of "dangerous" northern European sarcasm added for effect.

For the users of those devices the main "danger" lies obviously not in the platform itself but in its long since ceased development (incl. the often important closed source apps) and the lack of bug or security fixes. Heck, the development of supported platform (then Maemo 4, with subsequent version support implied) essentially ceased as soon as the N810 devices were released two years ago! (I am aware of the ongoing volunteer efforts that hope to address some of the "fixed in Fremantle" concerns)

Now clearly this issue has already been debated to its unwawering conclusion so it wasn't necessary to make it the headline grabber.

I gave you my fair view of market developments as I see them as a response to Dr Jääksi's "a bit dangerous" blog entry. You only have issue with my aside pointing out that a partially proprietary abandoned platform is the main danger for a user of platform too tightly controlled by a single corporate entity.

For Nokia (and the Maemo platform they control) the main danger may end up being lack of developer/user/media mindshare and a limited hardware ecosystem in comparison, say, with Android. Dr Jääksi's comments seem to imply that Nokia's fine with Maemo's status as a "dangerous" (fringe?) platform.

It is of course perfectly ok to dismiss any such concerns. I wouldn't dream of claiming that Maemo is going to die or anything as silly; just that the platform may not have the ingredients or strategy to reach its full early and even pioneering potential in the mainstream. If that is what Nokia and Maemo are satisfied with, hey, I'm cool with that.