I agree that the apps.meego.com presentation was encouraging, and this news is very discouraging. But there were also indications at the MeeGo Conference that LF had made a compromise with MeeGo. It was clear from the TSG and other structural mechanisms that MeeGo did not exactly have the open governance that you see in many OSS projects, but that it was worth it to LF I guess because MeeGo pushes out a fair amount of OSS, including upstream, and generally advances the cause of Linux. It's not the first time a non-profit has collaborated with corporations on a project and perhaps compromised a little for the greater good.

But I would like this thread to get back to the themes in the OP rather than being a Nokia pity party or an LF criticism. I'd like people to talk about their views on maemo.org, and whether there is despite, the practical challenges, a certain "stability" to its community governance that I would hope attract developers to continue to support it because they know the rug won't be pulled out from underneath them. There is I think an advantage to doing your own thing and not have your future compromised by what's going on "behind those curtains", as you put it earlier.