Hang on, this is not quite how things are.

First of all, there will be a Maemo 6 product so it's not discontinued just yet. Yes, Maemo 6, the just decided not to call it Maemo, it will be .deb based, with closed components and all, just the way Maemo is/was, for better or worse. This also means development has not stopped on Maemo - the Fremantle might be in support mode, but Maemo is a different story.

Second, there is this (very badly handled PR wise) support question. What exactly do we want ? The first (not just rebranded) MeeGo handset from Nokia will likely be released well into 2011, so they did not want to commit backporting to a by-then-outdated hardware platform. Really, it's WAY in the future. The real question is if the N9 will get MeeGo.

Third. I see there is still confusion as to what MeeGo is. MeeGo as such couldn't care less if you have multitouch, 4 or 10" screen, or resistive vs capacitive, nixie tubes or whatnot - it's a matter or vendor UX, completely independent from MeeGo (does the netbook edition of MeeGo require multitouch ?).