Eleven pages and no decision. I'd say you probably aren't going to get to a positive one, so perhaps waiting for a meego device is the right thing to do.

As for your points: official Nokia support - what do you want from Nokia in terms of support? There will likely be another firmware release but no more. But support in terms of repair and replacement will go on for some time.

Devs moving to Meego - one of the Meego ideas is developing apps with QT so that they work on Maemo, Symbian and Meego. How this works in real life will be interesting to see, but at least some apps will work across platforms.

But really, I think many people are missing the promise of what the n900 represents.

Imagine if you bought a PC from Dell. And from then on, you had to rely on Dell for updates to your operating system?

People here are concerned that there will be no official Meego for the n900. This actually makes me happy (with many provisos of course). It means that the OS and the hardware vendor are no longer tightly coupled. We look to Meego for updates to Meego, not Nokia.

It would be the best thing ever if all Nokia release are the drivers and closed source blobs (of which it is likely there will always be some) for the n900.

So you get your phone hardware, and you choose your OS - be it android, symbian, maemo, meego - and install your drivers and off you go.

Just like you would with a PC and linux. I want my phone hardware vendor to have less control over my OS, not more. The exact opposite of Apple.

This is the future I am keen to see unfold.