Nokia doesn't offer or sell support?

What's a phone got to do with it?? Newbies use desktops, laptop, tablets, netbooks, phones.. they all have GNU/Linux on them. Maemo is the absolute closest to real GNU/Linux as it gets... but they disable root. Makes no sense.

If nokia wanted to prevent people from getting root.. they would go after the maintainers of the rootsh package and make maemo harder to crack. Nokia doesn't *care* if people have root.. so far as I've seen. It's easy enough to get root, and they aren't putting anything in the way of trying to BLOCK that, so why not just make it default for the rare times one cannot install the right package?

You don't think people will install rootsh, break their device, and still call nokia??? You must be joking..