It seems to me that Nokia have taken a hands off approach, they didn't even provide support for the front camera in the N900 (not that I'm complaining).

The N900 being my first Maemo device (loving it btw) I'm wondering if they were this hands off with all other Maemo devices? Do Nokia offer any kind incentives to developers or have any developers of their own working on it, apart from the devs working on the firmware?