N9 'meego' was Harmattan, the direct descendant of Maemo 5, planned before the link-up with Intel to create Meego 'proper'. Harmattan had some backported compatibility pieces to make it nominally Meego compliant, but it was really Maemo 6.
Tizen came from the Meego proper project, which was more Moblin than Maemo.
This is what happens when you let marketing... do anything.
"If you compare US education with the european model, you’ll quickly notice that american kids are getting more confident of what they are doing very early in life."
Yes, this is a failure of metacognitive skills. They are too ignorant to realize their ignorance.
I can take my unlocked GSM/3G phone to a foreign country, buy a local prepaid SIM card for less than €5, and save a fortune on roaming charges. Operator competitiveness is enhanced when I'm not abroad, since they know I can dump them any time - so long as I didn't take a 'free' phone with a long contract - and go with their competitor. I pay €9 a month in Finland for a phone line, no included minutes/sms, and uncapped 384kbps data usage, on a rolling one month contract.