The thought occurred to me that the people least able to afford a full-price N900 will be the most likely people to take a gamble on the DDP, and they will be the same people who can least afford to be left with a €250 paperweight. I really do fear that this forum in the near future will be full of negative vibes from people who took the gamble on DDP, and lost.

The DDP is undeniably a good deal, but only if you can afford to take the risk on throwing away €250, or able to write it off against tax.

The DDP is not a good deal for community members/open source developers who are giving their own precious time to support and evangelise the N900, typically their only N900.

Contrary to popular opinion I do want the N900, maemo.org, Maemo 5 and Nokia to succeed, but this isn't the way to go about it. Since a warranty on DDP devices is extremely unlikely I think the only solution is to now offer discount codes to DDP eligible members for use in Nokia Stores that will bring the price down to €250 or thereabouts.