&#62; Apple is on record saying that jailbreaking is and should be a criminal act.<p>In case you haven't heard about that before:<p><a href="http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/02/apple-says-jailbreaking-illegal" rel="nofollow">http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/02/apple-says-jailbreaking...</a><p>And let's make sure that it really sinks in what they are saying here:<p>If you <i>buy</i> a device you do not own it and can not do with it what pleases you.<p>And this from the manufacturer of a computer that was as open as it could possibly be, the Apple II.<p>Sometimes I find it hard to believe how far we've come and then at the same time how much we have lost.<p>Steve Jobs is an absolutely awesome business guy, the way he has turned Apple around will be studied for decades. At the same time I wonder if it would have been possible without all this nastiness. If not then more power to him, but I prefer to think of the other Steve when I look at Apple and what might have been.