Palm is pretty much a has-been in the US. The name can't be worth $2 billion. If it's patents Palm owns, what are they and why isn't Palm making big bucks from them now? As far as any UI goodies (or anything else) in WebOS, what does it do significantly better than Maemo? The 'flip-away cards' thingie? Ya gotta be kiddin' me...so what? And if Nokia buys Palm, doesn't Palm + Nokia + WebOS + Symbian + Maemo sound like a great recipe for customer and marketing confusion and complexity? .
They're maemo and MeeGo... "Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...