Despite some minor mistakes Brockmeier's article is a recommended read.

Meego's top-down corporate hierarchy (in order to protect corporate hardware secrets I presume) basically stifles interest by the average non-corporate contributor. Major architectural decisions were made not on the basis of independent engineering decisions but by some Nokia/Intel managers who aren't in touch with the reality (and interest) on the ground.

I have full sympathy for the developers who've bet their and their little companies' future on MeeGo and its Qt core, but that sympathy doesn't void the misgivings experienced by the main OSS community.

It's 2011 and we've still only got a half-baked Meego OS and no proper fully supported hardware to run it on. No "reference device" (x86???) nor nothing by third parties. Meanwhile elsewhere... TDNBW.

I may be just another disillusioned former Nokia/Maemo fan, but it's getting late in the game (amazing when you consider Nokia's humongous but wasted headstart) and the MeeGo project just feels like like a half-hearted bad advertisement for a "potentially relatively proper" full OSS/Linux OS in the mobile space.

Fear not, there _will_ be a proper Linux heart beating underneath various mobile devices in good time, but I'm afraid it/they will only be related to the current Nokia/Intel/Meego or Canonical's Ubuntu. Qt might still be at the centre of it so the wishful developers shouldn't panic yet if they have enough funds to survive the initial MeeGo phase.

I always found it most peculiar though that Nokia partnered with the x86-obsessed Intel in the mobile space when it's all (obviously) happening on ARM hardware. A successful ecosystem _requires_ a host of hardware and software backers, but here were have no interest in delivering support for current state-of-the-art hardware simply because neither Nokia nor Intel are able to bring them to market. Meego simply revolves around Nokia's and Intel's projected hardware plans and meanwhile everything around it withers.

What's the purpose of a "community" if they're expected to idly (but excitedly!) hang around and, snap, one distant future date suddenly start developing, porting, organizing and rallying behind some single over-priced gadget by Nokia (or an x86-based one by the other project owner) which will then be half-assedly be supported for 12 months at most with minor updates before being abandoned for reasons of profit margin.

Woes? I'm beyond relying on Nokia (or Intel) to actually respect the OSS community. Useful parts of Meego will eventually percolate down across the real OSS community where stuff works according to users and developers interests rather than on a corporate whim.