No Nokia is not mother Teresa, but neither is it telling anyone in the community to shut up either. The idea is that Nokia works together with the community to make maemo.org a good place to be.

As for the new hardware.
There has been a lot of work in both getting new hardware and setting it up. Just be patient a small while more. No promises before Christmas (everyone wants to eat Christmas lunch without watching the server stats on an N900 under the table), but services will start moving to new hardware soon.

The downside is that setting up causes further slowness on the old servers as they need to be copied and synced to the new ones. The decision was not to shut down for a week to do that, but try and keep things running all the time.

The people who do this work (set up and run maemo.org) are not Nokia employees, they are community members who get sponsored to do this work.