Well..., a more likely question is, what if we report a bug in the auto-focusing for the camera in Fremantle, and the response is "Fixed in Harmattan"?

Isn't there a valid complaint, not against closed source components per se, but against that somehow, some way, even with this mostly open source software, we still find ourselves on an upgrade path similar to what would be for closed devices?

I mean buy a 770 in 2005, a N800 in 2006, and a N810 in 2007. Now a choice to buy a new N900 in 2009, but none of the prior apps will work on the N900 and Fremantle will not work on any of the prior devices. Each OS is tied to particular hardware, and each device is tied to a particular OS. And the same thing for the next generation. And we can't even fix the bugs left from the previous generations! This is the kind of stuff that open source is supposed to save users from and yet we have this predicament (or is it a conundrum?).