gerbick, I'm comparing Nokia with the companies you compare Nokia all the time and with the products available in the shops where you can find Nokia products. If you don't like this comparison please propose another one.

About BME closed, did you go and ask at meego-dev as I proposed to you few days ago when you came with the same point in this forum?

About the MeeGo architecture, http://meego.com/developers/meego-architecture shares a lot with Maemo, with Moblin and with other distros. Yet is a stack that it's not Maemo' it's not Moblin, it's not Fedora/openSuSE/Ubuntu/Debian. If you understand a bit about Linux platforms you will see that it's a quite unique and innovative stack having to solve certain problems other distros don't attempt to solve.

And sure, there are plenty of companies and even more individuals and also non-profits contributing LOTS of code and more. I'm not dismissing any of them! I'm just defending that Nokia is one of these organizations, actually contributing a lot. And again, if you go and ask Linux and free desktop developers and maintainers you will see that all in all Nokia gets better than worse feedback about what we do and how we do it.

About the lessons learned, I think in every Maemo iteration there were improvements but there was a structural ceiling barring more significant progress. This is one of the reasons why MeeGo was created, and Nokia is applying the remaining reasons there.

PS: the more you discuss about the MeeGo project the more it makes sense to do it at http://forum.meego.com