Well, call me a cynic, but I can't bring myself to believe in this right now.

One, I have seen too many fanfare announcements of partnerships between industry heavyweights over the years, just to see them get bogged down by corporate ego and infighting, and dive to oblivion with a whimper.

Two, from the outside this looks like a sellout on Nokia's part. They contribute Qt and the UI, Intel gets the rest (OS, infrastructure and governance). And I have much less faith in Intel's capacity to "get things right" than Nokia's... CPU neutrality ? Persistence ? Totally, 100% open source ? Wait 'n see...

Three, I don't believe in two unfinished parts making a complete whole. I'm on my fourth generation of Maemo devices: three of them have spent their usable lifespan as innovative hardware grossly underused by buggy and incomplete software. Looks like the fourth is going to follow suit now. And the fifth will likely run a beta of a mongrel with DNA from Moblin, which has always failed to impress me...

This could be the start of something great. Or it could be the end of this community as it evolved over the past four years.