Here's the thing in all of this: Nokia already releases a lot of source code on their SVN server [1]. With the Fremantle SDK even more will show up. While lots of people are making demands of Nokia to support older devices it's time to start thinking about the give and take of Open Source. Open Source is not about getting a free ride, it's about having the tools to help yourself. Supposedly the Fremantle alpha SDK will be almost entirely open source. Once it's out, community members need to start looking at it and talking about how to get the parts possible to run on the N8x0 (or even 770!) running. <plug>One of those projects is Mer: https://wiki.maemo.org/Mer_Blueprint </plug>. If people just sit around and complain here, waiting for Nokia to make choices, then when they have a deadline crunch they'll look at the lack of community involvement and make decisions accordingly.

[1] https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/trunk

-John