Originally Posted by fragos

Let me understand. People that create for the love of technology and share for free with others are a disapointment to you. Clearly the quality and completetness of open source software varies as it does for commercial products -- think Vista. Some open source is excellent and some a work in progress. Projects are frequently released when something useful has been accomplished even if the long term plan is for considerable enhancement and expansion of the feature set. In the open source community the community participates in the quality control effort. Bugs and feature enhancements are reported by all members. The price of free use is participation. If a member of the community perceives a lack of function they are free to create that function and share with the rest of us. True members paticipate within the limits of their capabilities.

Originally Posted by TokyoDan

A good example is Calend (Gene Cash's python PIM programs) which is a calander app that has been ported to 2008. At first this looked like a sweet app - just what I wanted, but upon further research I find it is bug-infested ( https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/?at...12&func=browse) .

Originally Posted by Serge

This may come as a surprise for you, but it is really hard to find any applications that are not bug-infested (be it commercial or free software). Of course exceptions exist for the areas where bugs can cost human life or introduce huge expenses.

It just happens that commercial vendors do not usually publish any information about their bugs for free access to everyone and put efforts into advertising their products as being high quality/superiour/best in the industry/etc. It is understandable as they want to make money and being completely honest does not pay off.

On the other hands, public bugtrackers of free software projects may contain a lot of bugreports, with quite a large share of them being duplicates, old unconfirmed bugs (somebody reported a single crash for example, but nobody could reproduce it later and the problem might be fixed long ago already), behaviour not expected by user but questionable if it is really a defect, very minor rarely encountered problems, etc. Really important and especially critical bugs are usually fixed quite fast. You can't directly judge quality only based on the number of issues registered in the bugtracker. Bugs are just not equal and a major bug may be a lot worse than a whole bunch of minor ones. Also popular and heavily used projects may have long error lists, with none of them being critical, while less popular projects may have lower quality with lower number of people caring to report bugs.

Originally Posted by TokyoDan

At first this looked like a sweet app - just what I wanted, but upon further research I find it is bug-infested ( https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/?at...12&func=browse) .

Originally Posted by TokyoDan

Thanks for your help mobiledivide. Although I went to the website for the GPE Calendar and got the impression that it is a hack of an old Palm app, I'll try it out.

And you're right about what I should do if I want more commercial software. But I do love the N810. It's just that when I bought it I had expected more support in the near-future from commercial-level 3rd party developers. But it seems that numbers outweigh superiority - and they ran to support iPhone/iPod Touch which really makes sense if one is "commercial".