I have mixed feelings about this - of course as an outsider and not dealing with Company stategies in my daily life I can't really judge it objectively - but just an a end user of Nokia products and Nokia philosophy I am not too optimistic about this move.

At least if nothing else - with OPK we knew he was behind the Meego push - as Nokia said so openly that Meego was going to drive its high-end products.

OPK was behind the Symbian push to open source land also - as Nokia very clearly laid down its strategies regarding Symbian development.

So these were known constants - as CEO he was allowing these moves to Open source Meego and open source Symbian and its further developments.

Now with this unknown variable of a new CEO - these strategies might change over the long run. Yes not in the short run - I am sure no new CEO will come in and dictate new changes immediately - but over the long run he might move away from trying a new untested OS and instead think about going back with the tried and tested - Symbian only again.

All of this is of course conjecture - but these could happen.
I would hate to see such changes - and we can only see them after 1-2 years time maybe if that happens. But for now I am sure looking forward to a Meego N9 (or whatever).