Originally Posted by
anrkitec
Sorta.
What the ruling says is that if you can find a way to legally unlock your phone then you can legally put legal software on it, but Apple can still sue the team that developed the software to defeat their protection systems so the victory is part real, part pyrrhic.
Are you sure about that? From what I read, as long as the team developing the firmware isn't distributing Apple code, then they are protected too. And if they choose to house their operation in a country other than the US then none of this applies in any case.
If I purchase an Apple computer and an Apple operating system, I can do whatever I want with the code on my computer. And if I write my own software to manipulate the code on my Apple computer, that is completely legal too. This is a pretty well established fact and commonly used with all operating systems on all computer types.