The end of the road for Firefox 2

So to sum up, all devs moved on to the new code and don't work on the old versions anymore, and no new 2.x(FF)/1.8.x(Gecko) releases will be made. This seems like a normal thing that happens all the time, so what's all the fuzz about?

And it's open source, so it should be easy to fork off a "stable" branch of the old code, like what happened with the kernel. Or is there something about the mozilla foundation that makes things like that difficult? (E.g. not providing hostage, not mentioning it on their site etc.)

*shrug*