Certainly coporations have made great contributions to open source, I agree. Many corporations have contributed to Linux along the way, and that is GREAT. Nokia runs the whole show with Maemo though, it is not just contributing peices here and there to something that it doesnt own, Nokia calls the shots. If that had been the case with Linux along the way, I do not believe things would be the way they are now.

Zerojay, the PANDORA is being released by a corporate entity created just for the production of the device, it was really a group of enthusiasts that got together. But that is not what I am talking about, or are you telling me that a *real* corporation controls Angstrom linux?

Ultimately, Nokia is developing a product with Maemo, they are not CONTRIBUTING to something, they are DEVELOPING something for themselves. Maybe part of the problem is that Nokia is focused on the OS and the device, its possible that Google has a good thought that the same company that works on the OS shouldnt make the devices... but I am not sure. Google scares the hell out of me, and id trust Nokia to control an OS long before I would trust Google to.

This is way off topic though, I wanted to present the pandora as an alternative. Someone had said I would still need to carry a phone, and asked why I would not just get the N900. I had explained why I would not do that, but I was not trying to start a great open source debate, I am certainly not qualified for that.

I have presented how I feel about it, im sure many people feel I am wrong, and more power to them. To each their own, this is how I feel and because of that, I wanted to let others know about a great device out there that could be an alternative for anyone that gives up on the N900.