'Mer was precisely killed by its lack of openness, but it's cute to see people say that it was the community's fault for not being involved.'

But enough about that. I've explained several times across many threads how a few blobs don't kill you (you probably already have some on your Linux PC) and how we're honestly trying to limit the damage done by them being blobs, now and in the future.

I'm happy Mer is dead.

Timeline wise It would have been built around for an obsolete platform (Maemo5) with severely changed architecture in Harmattan (Maemo6), causing rewrites of many things and then finished off with MeeGo (providing Mer's original goals).

Waste of time if we had continued down that road.