Thankfully the community has made maemo5/n900 a d*mn good device to own.

Without Linux, open source software and Developers maemo would have been an even worse failure.

All the effort that Nokia has put into maemo5 has been wasted because Nokia decided MeeGo was "cooler" to develop.

Nokia has wasted a whole year of investing in a technology that was well on its way to be serious competitor in todays smartphone market.

Essentially Nokia has reset their progress back to 2009 and everyone else has gained that year to improve thier products.