MeeGo, for netbooks at least, is 100% open source. I have asked a direct question, and I got a direct answer to that question. The MeeGo team will not release any software that is not open source, no blobs allowed anywhere.

This would also mean that the MeeGo team will not release software for the N900 that is not 100% open source? I don't know if this really is the case, but it would be a natural assumption. The MeeGo team releases MeeGo, not Nokia. Therefore, the MeeGo on the N900 will never be in a usable state. To get it in a usable state will be "up to the community", as explained by Nokia.

Nokias software, Harmattan/Maemo6 or whatever it will be called, can of course be released with as many blobs necessary to make it work. But the situation is that Harmattan will not be based on MeeGo, it will be based on Maemo, but with a MeeGo friendly UX. The N9 will run Maemo.

If it is so much easier for Nokia to use Maemo instead of MeeGo on the N9, then why shouldn't it be the same for the N900. The N900 already runs Maemo. What benefits will MeeGo give, that Maemo does not? None, according to Nokia. Why would Nokia release drivers (binary blobs) that also work with the MeeGo kernel? I bet they wont. Why should they? they have Maemo after all.

Who cares anyway, the N900 is old and Nokia use Qt (as if we didn't have Qt since long before Nokia acquired it). In effect Nokias "MeeGo" is only the UX based on Qt. To me the whole MeeGo operation looks more like a maneuver to differentiate the open source activity (MeeGo kernel) and the commercial activity (Maemo kernel) in which future "MeeGo" nokia devices will be based. Or it is a complete mess.