I am all for healthy debate, but I do think this topic is doomed to fail...

MeeGo...is a completely new and different OS
Nokia do not have to offer it free to anyone.

As someone else said, its like saying to Microsoft...why have they not updated Windows Vista users to Windows 7 for free?....
Microsoft offer updates to Windows Vista, and thats all yout entitled to....
If you want Windows 7, ya gota pay for it.

Putting all that aside....just because its new and shiny, does not mean its better!
And having said that, to what I have seen so far, the Maemo UI is far far nicer than MeeGo....I mean, crappy old fashioned tabs? How original.

And with QT, what does it matter, now that apps can be coded to work on both, meaning Maemo will never become extinct.

I would rather have an awesome, complete Maemo, than a ugly, buggy, and incomplete MeeGo.