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In the final analysis Maemo may have attracted more wanting free beer instead of free speech. As a result all possible delivery options may not have been explored. New methods did not seem to develop from within the community.

To be fair, some of our communities best and brightest often found that the alleys that they did explore ended in a closed source dead end or barricade erected by Nokia its own dang self.

In many ways MeeGo is a "do over", IMHO.

Although MeeGo is being touted as step 5 of 5, some feel that the first 4 steps were heading North and that 5th step went East. At least that is the way these tracks look like to someone like me who must follow them instead of making them.