Surely, you don't believe owning the right phone is a life or death kind of deal?
It's supported by maemo.org, that's enough for me.
Did you consider that the board may consist of ... glorified accountants?
or even ... glorified accountants with alternate agendas?
Irrelevant, all choices made by elop + his cohorts during the last weeks are pure speculation.
If you're going to speculate, a winning recipe is to add at least some reality (pretty hard for accountants).