Maybe what I should have said is more respect.

Karl has already posted on the forum apologizing for the delays many of us experienced. I thought that was decent of the guy to do that and hence earned some respect from the people on this thread.

However, it would have been much better if Karl or a representative from MPD posted this information directly to the board instead - it's would be good public relations to do this.
It would have been better doing it this way rather than to be announced by a third-party (Young_mario and now a few others) means many people would not have known.

I have not been sent this email and would not have known about the current developments.

To be fair, initially I did not blame MPD for all the problems they have with the n900.

I blame Nokia for the delays - the constant changing of the release date of the n900 meant is was extremely difficult for MPD to plan or implement any kind of delivery strategy.