Yes, I know. I've seen it.

If it's on the web, it's discussable ;-)

It just seems like a few people here are being cryptic about the fact that Chinook will be Maemo 4.0; will use the Hildon Desktop rather than the Hildon Application Framework; that the Hildon Desktop will allow home plugins to be written in Python and that Nokia developers are working on it *right now*; they're working on moving it upstream for use with Ubuntu Mobile etc.; that it can be seen in development in Sardine and so on.

None of these changes in and of themselves should be particularly exciting to end-users, yet the mysticism around the future of Maemo is whipping them up into a frenzy.

Nokia are starting to be more open about Maemo's direction and roadmap, and finally trying to separate themselves out. There's no need to be cryptic, it's all public!

This is also how we can be relatively sure there won't be massive UI overhauls in the next firmware: Hildon is the most open source bit of the IT OSes.

Now, sharing information about future Nokia Maemo-based devices, or future N800 IT OS releases and their functionality (specifically in the non-open bits), *that*'s news.

Cheers,

Andrew