Disagree here. If he's a "trojan" like oft cried in these parts, then if MeeGo becomes polished enough to be a true threat to anything else out there and they still don't know how to market it, then it will probably get killed off.

Reminds me of when Macromedia had Director and then mTropolis came out, instantly started gaining share. Quark bought it, didn't know how to market it, sat on top of it, shopped it around a bit, then just killed it. Shame too... because it was honestly better than Director in so many ways.

I don't see Elop as selfish. In so many ways, I see that he could be seen as such; I see him as an opportunist that's been handed a situation that could go either way; it just went towards WP7 because it could be built against - internally and for other purposes into concepts whereas the 6 month incremental builds of MeeGo, while steady and dictated on a very programmatic schedule have yet to yield an UI (yet) and/or product that's "refined". Not that I'd call WP7 refined, it's still a rather beta-ish OS imho.

MeeGo on Nokia will happen only if they can equal or better the desktop application offerings than Microsoft - which are limited due to DRM, OS or whatever. So far, I don't see that happening - that happens, Elop might switch or append to the current scope.

So far, he just seems (as do the board) unimpressed or unconvinced that MeeGo could do it. No amount of ranting, raving, wishing, or stomping like angry toddlers will convince anybody. It just needs to happen.