Allow me to say that while I was quoted, and I fully support what I said then in regards to the openness that is Maemo 5 and the repositories and the Ovi Store versus the walled gardens of the iTunes Music Store ecosystem and how they've gathered different kinds of attention and developer types... open source is very necessary and vital to anybody that uses a computer despite being a developer, designer, admin or casual user.

I give hell to a lot of OSS projects for being "design by committee" projects where the UI/UX tends to get bombed with so many perceivable thoughts of how it should be done - each user thinks their way is better or more right than the other. But let's be honest, the opposite is not always the better option either - where one person dictates the entire project and it has gaps in useability and/or forces the user to think and use a computer like that person.

I'd rather have a voice and say than not. So I lean towards open source moreso than not. In fact, the fact that Linux and openness is being embraced on my phone and by more of the apps that support my livelihood is great. And down deep, I want those devs to "win"... simply because the community has more control of the ship as it goes forward.

But I'll not bash the open source crowd... ever. I just would love for it to pay off in the same ways (besides popularity/notoriety) as the people that make apps in the iTMS ecosystem.