Yes they are going to need some rock solid talking points here is why.

Nokia Pretty much killed itself by removing the n900 from the development plans. I would not be surprised it there meego project imploded because of a lack of developers willing to move to a new field because the number of times they have been burned by nokia's inconsiderate views of its developers here at maemo.org. So yes sure they have to funding but they don't have the support of the community and I don't thing that they see how this is going to blow up in there face.