agree with you abt the openness and community driven development....but isnt it the business model adopted by all OEMs today...certainly nokia isnt the initiator.

spare me for my ignorance, I'm always intrigued about openess particularly in software.Does openness means it sans commercial boundaries...for eg if you overclock the CPU and any issue arising after that, would nokia acknowledge to support the hardware assuming the openess of the platform supports tweaking the kernel.Ok..... it might be a core kernel level tweak but alternatively why is a disclaimer being run for all third party app installs.

the other interesting thing is nokia personnel boast on the same openness of the platform in upgrading to meego or maemo 6 but with a rider of dependancy on nokia's business decisions

the point is, the current business models of leveraging communities through SDK releases undermines any differences between an open and closed system.

correct me if i'm wrong