I guess its no big deal that its October, 2010 and Meego 1.1 is in the state its in. I guess everything is just peachy, just the way everyone thought it would be back when work started on Maemo 6.

To me and a lot of other people, that has NEVER been clear until right now. I understood it wouldn't be formally supported by Nokia. That I can live with. But the fact that people are now saying that Meego 1.2 is a reference, not an "end user ready" product is pathetic.

People bought N900s thinking that Maemo 5 was going to be replaced by a solid, feature filled OS, be it Maemo 6 or Meego. Whether it was to be supported by Nokia or not.

I don't need the support of HP or IBM or Sony or Dell to run Linux/GNU/OS on my laptop. Linux/GNU/OS works on all these devices. Drivers are built into the kernel, builds are made for different hardware platforms and things work.

There is no reference "Linux". There is no reference KDE. There is no reference Qt. There is no reference Gnome. These are all finished products and ship as such.

If Meego is going to be "open", its going to work the same way.

I get a worse and worse vibe the further I get into this. It started out as a powerful, kick ***** project that was going to take the mobile world by storm. Now its deteriorated into a series of let downs and half truths and misleading promises with no real end in sight. Every time we get close to another milestone another half truth rears its head.

I specifically like how they named the products released thus far Meego 1.0 and 1.1. Truer names should be Meego 0.1 and 0.5 It sounds like what they are calling 1.3 will be worthy of a 1.0 number.

I'm really worried that there is going to be a "reference" version of Meego that is mostly open and then vendor specific versions that contain a pile of closed source stuff that is needed to actually make things work. If that is the case, its no better than Apple or Android.

I'll check back in April.