1. I don't want to start an rant or such thing.
2. English is not my native language, so I have to short my thoughts according to the words i know.

Why should Nokia work on better drivers or license the buggy ones?
There is no 3D GUI to make use of it, that could raise sales. Every action Nokia takes has to do with marketshare and profit. There may be others who think Nokia loves the Community and must be nice to the community. I don't think so. It's just a company that does its Job(people from Europe may have heard of "Bochum") in an oldschool capitalistic way.

The ONLY point that could persuade Nokia to work on the drivers would be, that it could raise sales. Why should it raise sales? The batterylife is already good enough no ordinary user cares about 3D games. There is no 3D GUI.

A company that does its job well has got a roadmap. Every device on that roadmap has to have its place and its time for sale. The N800 is already dead, the N810 is still in production, the Wimax Ed. has no new features besides Wimax. The devices already have a good marketshare because there is really no competition in that segment. Now imagine Nokia has got a N900 or whatever on that roadmap(it sure has, unless Nokia plans to let die the series). This new Device must be attractive to get new customers and may convince users of older devices to buy it, too.

There will be a point where reasons to buy a device will overlap and at that point it makes no sense to push devices that old any further, just let them die and go on with the new devices.

The problem is, we outside Nokia don't know where we stand. At what point is the roadmap. The whining about the drivers lasts so long by now, I don't think, that there will happen anything in that direction.

The community or a developer would have to say here is a supadupa application I will write or port or whatever and it will double your sales. Give me the drivers and I will do it! That won't happen. The IVA and MBX are just features nobody at Nokia considers important enough.

There will be the day when the N8x0 will be dropped, thats sure as the amen in church. The question is, will the community continue the work an let the devices live or will it just go on with the N900 or whatever? The chances that work will go on with N8x0 depends on what features have been implemented by then and how big the performance and feature gap between the old and the new is. Just start closing the imaginary gap NOW.

Get together every hacker, developer, hardware expert from the community, set up a project and start working on a wrapper, driver or whatever to utilise the abandoned features. If it is made with enough work on the public relation side of things it may attract other developers/hackers from outside the community as well. Nokia could at least have more respect towards the community then. Just stop talking about that driver licensing or whatever part that would be dependent on help from Nokia. Don't be naive.