"Jailbreaking" your mobile phone

By dougt | Published: February 17, 2009

Mozilla has taken a position on “Jailbreaking” your mobile phone.

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The letter to the Library of Congress is here (PDF). The main point is that Jailbreaking should not be illegal on personal equipment. It is a short read. If you are reading this, you probably already agree and support Mozilla argument.

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4 Comments

  1. Tristan
    Posted February 18, 2009 at 12:01 am | Permalink

    Cool!

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  2. Simon
    Posted February 18, 2009 at 2:42 pm | Permalink

    You know, we really should have better terminology for this. Waving a banner around saying “Jailbreaking is not a crime” isn’t going to go down well with anyone who doesn’t recognize the technical context… you’ll just get labeled as crazy anarchists.

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  3. dougt
    Posted February 18, 2009 at 2:47 pm | Permalink

    @simon the rallying cry isn’t for the non-believers. outlining why this is important is done very well in the Mozilla document to the LoC.

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  4. Chokyi - mobile phones
    Posted March 1, 2009 at 4:56 pm | Permalink

    Dought, Thanks for sharing about “Jailbreaking” mobile phone. I personally like things to be openly shared and more choices are offered.

    Reply

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