> Jailbreaking is not part of the lock-in. It's a way of doing more stuff with the hardware than the original software allowed you to do. That's precisely what

> Jailbreaking is not part of the lock-in. It's a way of doing more stuff with the hardware than the original software allowed you to do. That's precisely what rms is referring to when he says "jail": https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.html#jails https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.html#jails "allowed you to do" is the key phrase in your sentence---software should never tell you that you can't do something just because its developers don't want you to do so (we call that an "anti-feature"); software should be a tool to serve the user, not hold their computer/device hostage to exert control over them.