Personally I would like to send a huge thanks to Nokia for having the courage to produce the first properly good open platform running Linux.

The N900 is like a breath of fresh air.

Having been Microsoft free for nearly 8 years and having to watch proprietary stacks with abhorent lockins such as DRM, tied cloud services etc working to the detrement of consumers come and go I think the N900 is without a doubt currently the best platform for the future benefit of customers.

A big thanks also to Novell (www.novell.com) who have just fought the good fight for 7 years and been confirmed rightful owners of all their Unix copyrights keeping Linux free for the benefit of all Linux users world wide making such excellent devices as the N900 possible.

If the SCOrags had got their way then they would have tried to levy a per seat charge of $699 SCOtax for each handset on top of its base price.

More details at

http://www.groklaw.net

Now if only we could have OpenSuse install on the N900 then life would be perfect.

http://www.opensuse.org

rgds