Okay, sorry about the misunderstanding.

Yes, I'm also excited about VLC coming to the N900. That's the sort of thing that makes Maemo seem like it has so much potential as a platform. Lots of real, powerful, desktop apps (not just the sort of pseudo-applications that make up the Apple app store). And lots of choices between different powrful apps, e.g. VLC, mplayer, totem, xine. What I'm worried about is how much of the regular Linux apps like that will get ported.

I'm surprised there's a negative response to VLC. If people aren't interested in VLC then just ignore it. It doesn't make sense. What does it hurt if some developers choose to spend their time porting VLC? That's the beauty of open-source at its best. Nobody's forcing anybody to use it. Very perplexing.