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Right, because if Steve has any restriction at all on his genius, he'll take his ball and glove and go home, instead of ... making a great product and making a profit.

Yours is a stupid argument that can always be whipped out to justify corporate abuse. Or any other abuse, for that matter.

Setting aside your attack on "Steve", the point I'm making is that no one WITHOUT A PATENT has developed an iPhone, or anything remotely close. Prove me wrong. I dare you.

1> Didn't say patent reform. Also needed, but not related to this conversation.

2> Copyright reform could remove prohibitions on cracking the DRM, allowing people to install whatever and allowing third parties to legally install whatever and to legally bypass the signing and "licensing agreement" which is clearly a license of adhesion, especially in many states.

3> Cell phone law reform could mandate "install whatever" on devices be legal.

How does A PATENT [sic] have anything whatsoever to do with whether people are allowed to unlock it?

I was responding to this comment: "If you want this, lobby for patent reform."

Already does exist. It's not going to stop existing if this regulation/law is made.

That's a bogus argument.