Why would a jailbreak be needed? What am I missing?<p>An iPad developer could compile up copies of some of life's goodies like bash, emacs, Perl, Ruby, Python, some lisp variants, Apache, etc.<p>Then the developer write a little Mac-application which let the user apply for the Apple Developer program. When that is granted, the application installs the developer tools and downloads the iPad projects for emacs, etc.<p>Every user which use scripting applications will be his/her own developer. Without jailbreaks.