I find it odd but heartening to point out that although CM9 and CM10 won't work on my ancient Motorola Droid, apparently, CyanogenMod continues to support the old thing at CM7. I still have CM 7.0.2 on my Droid because I thought they'd stopped.. but lo and behold, I saw a recent release of CM 7.2.0 and nightlies as recent as 9/23/2012 (five days ago). I also noticed that my Galaxy Tab 7 (which is about two years old soon) also got CM10 nightlies (Jellybean!).

Meanwhile, my Nokia N800 hasn't seen a proper real upgrade in a long time and still shows all those long-dead links to Nokia sites that no longer exist... some of which were baked into the OS and couldn't be removed just like the media player and other dependencies. :P How're the N900 updates coming along, by the way?

It's ironic that Google didn't really TALK a lot about embracing open-source with Android but it did it reasonably well, but Nokia did a LOT of talking about open-source with Maemo then Meego and did very little open-source and instead crippled things more and more as they went along--finally not even implementing a full on MeeGo device, instead releasing a half-backed Maemo with MeeGo aspirations.

Just pointing out how OPENING up more to open-source kept the value of an old device, unlike Nokia's positioning of CLOSING up more and ignoring the bug reports and customers.

Discuss.