I kind of suspect that the Maemo folks are not so happy about this leakage.
I for one start feeling sorry for downloading the firmware (I used a different method than looking for a MAC address) ahead of time.
I don't know what legal issues there may be inside Nokia, but if they delayed the update for the N800 to December there MUST be a reason (either "logical" or "commercial").
And we all went against this. This is a statement for a fact.

I don't feel sorry for Nokia by itself, I feel sorry for the Maemo team and I hope this leakage doesn't hurt the relationship they are building with the open source community (us) and, more important, I hope it doesn't hurt the "view" that a huge commercial company like Nokia has about the open source (and that brought us this mostly open-sourced device).

But, indeed, they should be already prepared for this things to happen, but I still feel some kind of "sorryness" and I can't stop it.

And yes, I am still running the OS2008 on my N800.

Waiting for a reaction from the Maemo team, I haven't seen anything yet.