If Nokia had truly made the N900 FULLY open source then for sure Maemo would have been successful.

No programmer can get past closed source anything and the real reason Maemo flunked out of exsistance for Nokia.

Had Nokia put more trust in the community of would be programmers for Maemo by letting everything be open by negotiation with their own team that built the device we would be looking at a completely different success story for Maemo.

Meego will suffer the same losses simply because companies are too damm greedy and want to capitolize their own investments instead of looking broadly into the future.