Perhaps the people that can afford it and do buy it will become the new "core drivers" of the community??

Just because the current "core drivers" can't afford one doesn't mean the community will flounder and become useless! Certainly other people will pick up the slack. Particularly as we get the new influx of people everyone keeps talking about. *edit* Isn't that what open source is about? Others picking up where someone else left off?*

Or is it because some of the "core drivers" feel Nokia owes them for all the work they have previously put in? I always see "community supported" thrown around. I assumed that support was given freely, not in return for some expected payment?