You are right, there is no way to be certain about the future of it. I am sure that there are people within Nokia devoted to the true open source way also. But ultimately, the way this launch has progressed has really convinced me that the people who call the shots currently at Nokia are putting the good of Maemo and the good of the customer at the bottom of the list. Not only do I think this is bad for an open source OS, but I also believe this is bad as a buisness model.

By no means am I a master of buisness and industry, but as an active consumer, I feel this is the wrong direction to take. Maybe things will turn around in the future, and maybe Nokia (or the controlling players at Nokia) will learn from the mistakes made here and now. In my experience though, those kind of people never learn... and if the device sells well, nothing will ever change, and it will be considered a success. Because monetary success is what matters most to a corporation, that is usually all that is taken into account.

Regarding the openness, I may have mistyped something. I was commenting on the opennes of the OS, not of the hardware. I may not have the whole picture though, I am not an expert by any means. As stated on the site, it runs http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/ with a few changes.