If this idle speculation should happen to be fact, I would judge it as this:

- It would be sad because it would be leaving behind a part of the soul of Maemo. Maemo has always been about standing apart when it comes to internet browsing.

- It would be leaving behind advantages to go running after the competition. Much like Phone 7 dropping multitasking.

- It would be a shame because microb is a better browser than Firefox. microb is in manys opinion the best browser among the current alternatives.

- It would however not be the death of mobile browsing, because both the Gecko, Webkit and Gecko strains are improving fast. We have an OS that allows for installing whatever software someone is willing to port.

- I believe Nokia has resources to make a good webkit browser. Of course, that also goes for every competitor.

That said, this is idle speculation, right?