I just received an email from nanonation. The unedited text follows. No surprises (at least not at this late stage), but it was nice of them to get back to me.

Ben:

My apologies for getting back with you so late. As you may have surmised, it?s been very busy around here.

At this time, we are not moving forward with the Linux client application project we discussed. We may continue to play around with it, but we were simply unable to put together a plan that made sense ? even with you as an additional resource. We are now in the middle of a migration to the CE platform to cover a new ARM-based processor on the market ? so that is our short-term focus for new platform development.

Thanks for your time and interest in Nanonation. It was a pleasure to meet you and I certainly wish you the very best on your future path.

Best regards,

Bradley