For fans of swish phones coupled with slick, open operating systems these are sad times. In at least one other thread on this board, commenters are kicking Nokia employees when they are down (read, for example, the run up to:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...postcount=1524

As Quim outlines, even those who haven't lost their job in this round are likely to be living on borrowed time based on the slimming down of Nokia's future portfolio.

As a user (and big fan) of the N9 (and before that Maemo) I wanted to create a thread to say thank you to the Nokia employees who worked on them (and Meltemi). I hope that any affected employees reading this find jobs soon in companies who can harness your talents better!

I'll be using my N9 for a long time yet. After that I'm not sure where I'll go but I suspect I'll be longing for some of the things that Maemo+Meego made easy.