Yeah, I'm not entirely happy with the non-warranty situation myself. I'll probably go through with it anyway, as the fault rate of these devices are probably low (from my experience with other Nokia devices, including the N800. There seemed to be more problems with the 770 though.)

The reason I'm getting myself the N900 through the DDP program is so that I can actually do some development on Maemo 5, as a minimum get those few packages I've ported or built before (e.g. lprng, rdate, remind, and a couple more) rebuilt and tested. I want to develop a new one that I would need myself. I don't want to spend 500 euro + VAT for this though, so I go with the DDP program. A warranty would have been nice, obviously.