On Feb 18, 2011, at 1:53 PM, [email protected] wrote: > there is a principal in English Common Law (which is the foundation for > much of western law) called First Sale, which says that once you sell > something to someone else you no longer can dictate how it is used.
That principle is also well-established in the current US caselaw where it was held that jailbreaking a phone is *NOT* illegal. So you *can* "use your iPhone" however you want. That said, though, there is no legal requirement that Apple change its pre-installed software to make it easy for you to do so. Nor that they be required to have their software run on the "hacked" platform. Nor that they provide you with any sort of support for your hacked iPhone afterwards, as it falls under your typical "voiding the warranty" type of under-the-hood modifications. You're perfectly within your legal rights to buy iPhones, distribute a tool for jailbreaking them, and create a parallel marketplace infrastructure. The people who wanted to partake in your infrastructure would have to be aware that they'd be abandoning support from Apple, any chance of future software updates, and possibly even that the CURRENT software would continue to work (in which case you'd have to be prepared to deploy your own OS onto that hardware for your customers to use). That would all be perfectly legal. D _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
