Quite many people here defend that how important device is to them. It´s natural but try to see beyond that. Beyond your own needs NOW. How you think that this wonderful piece of software and device keeps on going? Off course there is always open source and fork way and constant evolution, but there still has to be mothership Nokia constantly on background. Maemo has been, until now just money spending test and right now we are seeing first outreach to make it more profitable in future. IF Nokia doesn't manage to make it tasty enough device for large group of customers then we will see it fading away or merging to other companies etc. and community forks start popping as Nokia ends it supports and leaves it to hands of community. We will end up one of distrowatches endless stream of forks and tryouts. And then we can really sign "kumbaya" and hold each others hand and brainstorm, talk about stupidity of users and play with our little pet until end of world.

There is small group of people who really appreciate x term and all the nice functionalities of linux, but it isn't enough to make profit. You will never ever convert main part of people to appreciate the power of CLI and bash. People will not miraculously start reading manuals and want to learn more about their system. NO that will not happen. Big part of customers want apps that give them added value and are easily bought (itunes + credit card + content = full of win for customers and shareholders and developers, MONEY MONEY). This thing needs more magic and in my opinion this means that Nokia really needs to buy hundreds of quality apps to their coming ovi store service to make this device interesting enough to customers. They already have navigation, expect that not for N900 :| Magic will not happen by throwing this in open water and saying "Hey its OS looook!". People will look and go away :|

Whatever strategy Nokia has the first thing to think about is profit. Not open source or community. Profit my friends. That´s how business works.