It is also useless if the user doesn't have any need for it. Your point being (other than trolling)?
Eh? This was from Seer:
Depends if one needs firewire & PC/104 and doesn't need an upgradeable CPU.
They are not going to write FireWire stack in one day and if the mA1-I is the only A1 board with FiWi I'd expect writing FiWi stack is not at top priority atm. Supporting USB stack is lot work already.
In Linux FiWi should be just matter of drivers of course.