Gerbrick has some clear points. And I myself have had issues over the years with how Nokia has managed the entire like of NIT products.

But the way I've seen it, and continue to see from here - is that Nokia has produced a series of devices that are the closest to the perfect devices I've seen (I loved my N810, and hope to love my N900) - and the only devices that I can feel I'm using and supporting without feeling completely like a sell out.

Hopefully, MeeGo being more of a open development process and visible to the public will be better. However, what I fear and don't want to see happen is Nokia+Intel making a base.. and then saying "K, we're done. Ask the community what's next."

Even in the Open Source world of Linux you need a backing by a dedicated group of people to propel forward. The off-time, night coders of the community don't have the time to dedicate full-time-job-like effort to the project. This is why things like Ubuntu, Red Hat, SuSE and Mandrake are big - they have a central core group that continues to work on the product; and then they take input from the community on where to go next.