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What's actually happening here as a result of the Symbian Signed mess is that there are a handful of developers who sell software (I do stand by the word "handful", even if there may be more), and that's it. Freeware developers are completely left out.
And sorry but blaming developers of freeware, who do it out of nothing but passion, for the issues of signing apps by the end-user is perhaps too much to bear for me.
We do certainly have different backgrounds, but I won't be convinced that the end user would rather like to pay for something instead of getting it for free. I've paid for, say, Handy Taskman, only to later find a freeware program that does everything it does a lot better (JBak Taskman, in case anyone cares). Yes it's unsigned, but what the folk here appear to be saying is "let's disregard such apps completely". Till Symbian Signed gets fixed. Will that really ever happen? I mean the situation has been as it is for a very long time and no, to me at least, they don't seem to care (should the fact that if freeware should be, ehm, free, than no royalties will be paid to them have anything to do with this?).
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for developers making profits, but I'm primarily for choice. My choice, as an end user.
And btw, don't, say, a timer and stopwatch seem to have been left out (incredibly, imho) from S60 so that someone would sell me an app that does that for $10-20? This is not me paying for some developer's innovation (which I have absolutely no problem with), this is me paying for something that even a RAZR has.

 
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