Good point, I doubt they'd be willing to make it 100% public domain, and I don't blame them, they spent a lot of money developing it.

However, given the ruling that it can only ever be deployed onto Nokia Hardware, and that Nokia has the right to deploy our code onto any handset them may develop in the future, we may see maemo again, you never know.

We get the phone working perfectly with every rough edge ironed out and the ability to future proof it, flash 10 integration perhaps for instance. Maybe things Nokia haven't ever dream't of.

Nokia get a completely free development and testing team.

How could they resist that, as long as it's tied to Nokia Hardware.