After reading about needing to 'jailbreak' Android phones,
http://www.salon.com/technology/dan_...nes/index.html

Recognizing that in this current moment
Apple Jailbreak is not the same "as Rooting" Android
(but I cannot help but imagine the ever-rushing fingers of
kleptocacies around the world will change that fact eventually.)
I wondered if there was ever a need to jailbreak the n900.

Did anyone get an n900 phone locked into or out of some service?

Looks like only the competitor phones get to be jailbroken...

But I do see the n900 can be used to jailbreak other gear.

Back to the original question though -
if the n900 does not need to be jailbreak,
does that mean it it impossible to jailbreak?

Is there any competition in the "no need to jailbreak" market?
My take is that the n900 is simply the only phone in existence that
can be completely reworked from the cli
(including just plunking a spanking different OS into it,
but did I miss something?
We do this all the time with computers (I have an old Aigo thingy
that has been reflashed so many times it is dizzy)
But not with handphones.

And what are the odds Meego units will need jailbreak kits?
none, I hope - as long as we get them from retailers instead of
locked into some carrier feeding pipe.

These are very important questions for consumers like myself.