szopin, don't You realize that all "let's buy it from Nokia or hire people to reverse engineer it" ideas are so expensive, that it's cheaper to design our own, 100% open device from scratch (with possibility of using existing open or mostly open devices as implementation references). BTW, starting with less than 1GB of RAM is not worth the effort - seriously. Yet, it is totally off-topic here. /Estel
all this hardware seeking is exactly why i think NOKIA is Maemo's only chance traditional GNU/Linux distros don't have that problem as they are running on a standard PC, as they are sold by 100s of thousands every day. even a small project like Trinity Desktop Environment (the continuation of KDE 3.5.10 since KDE upgraded to KDE 4) can survive, only with one dedicated coordinator, a bunch of ppl helping directly and the open source community contributing... they know for 100% sure TDE will run on a standard PC, even with proprietary video card, as long as they remain in line with the x86 / x86_64 architecture. this simply does not exist for mobiles or Internet Tablets, alas. thus the dependance upon a manufacturer, in Maemo's case NOKIA. for the better or the worse