Title: I don't get the hate.<p>Pay your $99 to become a developer, and, once the NDA is lifted, share your code freely with others on github or some other public venue.<p>Think of the $99 as the cost of the SDK. (Even though the SDK &#38; associated tools are freely downloadable.)<p>If you're really interested in sharing arbitrary code with people, this is even perhaps the best way to do it. They download the code, and build &#38; go in Xcode.<p>You're running on a Mach/BSD Unix-based system, so go hog-wild. Port terminal programs, or write your own. Yes, it's true that apps are sandboxed, but now you've got inter-app file sharing (oops, is that under NDA?).<p>Apple has zero interest in what you do with the iPad that doesn't go through the App Store.<p>Think of the App Store as the public roads for the iPad--the state has a vested interest in making sure that drivers are minimally competent, so they have a gatekeeping function in the form of a license. On the private roads, or roads you make yourself, go crazy.
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