And Nokia has never announced that they would stop supporting Maemo 5. Please, do not misinterpret the announcements -- Maemo 6 might be in the works, but Maemo 5 is very certainly still being worked on. I don't see Nokia stopping that in the near future, and neither should anyone else. Nokia are responsible, they know that if they have a few million devices (I actually have no idea what the sales of the N900 are), and there are major issues to be fixed, they will be.

No, and I'm sorry to see you being that wrong.

The bugzilla will never be empty. That is what prioritisation is for. The urgent bugs or enhancements get fixed, and if we have we look at the less urgent things. That's how the software industry has always worked, and that's how it most likely will always work. The customer requests new features (and there are tons of new feature requests in Bugzilla, even if they aren't marked as such) and then begins a contractual tango between customer and vendor.

I could (if you had the clearance) show you dozens of contracts where this happens at this very moment. Governments, banks, telecom companies -- and those are just our customers. They raise issues, they try to make us modify things, but they all come to realise, at some point, that the money they spent on the contract isn't going to be enough to pay for our developers anymore, and thus they prioritise massively, to only get the major 2 or 3 items fixed.

The thing works, it isn't broken (except for Guber, but then again there is nothing on this planet that could make him happy). Some things need fixing, sure, but the Bugzilla will NEVER be empty.

Do you even know, on average, how many issues get reported per day, and how many get fixed?