Firstly..
as per wiki responded..
I was not questioning the necessity of roof, food, running water and electricity for anyone.
I merely said that I doubted after paying wages for 5 years and sourcing parts and paying for overhead, that there was much ...if anything left to work with..budget wise..
And I think that Ken's last statement about the project aiming to start another round of fundraising pretty much answers the question.

As far as using archaic devices goes..
and putting or not putting the neo into that camp..
there is a difference.
When the n770, n800, n810 and n900 came out ..they were cutting edge.
The neo is not coming out of the gate anywhere close to cutting edge.
the mentioned privacy , being the best edge it has right at this moment....(at the estimated cost of almost $2000 CDN ..which could also change......)

As time passes ..
the edge it loses ..even keeps par with ...against other devices..
that chasm grows.

I enjoy using dated devices, I have many of them...but it is for the functions that they have that no other current device has ....that is what I enjoy them for ...as much as the comfy feeling of familiarity ..
and yes...decent screen real estate, resistive, and running maemo and other os's are the thing for me.

I would probably have used ...let alone currently use my n900's more..if the screen real estate were big enough...but 3.5 is pretty bloody small to enjoy in compare to the n800's or the n810's