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Palm Pre Does Not Get US Tethering Either
fermion writes "The Register is reporting that Palm has sent a note to the Pre Dev Wiki asking it to stop discussing tethering. Palm is worried that its US carrier partner, Sprint, is none too eager to have users tether the game-changing tetherable smart phone. While the communication was informal, not legal, the development forum is evidently eager to avoid any possibility of lawsuits, so has rapidly agreed. Perhaps, like the iPhone, the Pre is going have a vigorous underground. What is interesting is that the Pre, like the iPhone (allegedly), can be tethered outside of the US; but even those customers are being denied apparently lawful information to satisfy the US exclusive agents."
But you did intentionally choose an attitude that displays your douchiness.
So let's see, the telcos build the network. The phone companies build the phones. They see how people want both, so they sell people what they want to buy. Then someone who built either wants both builders to give away what they built. When the builders say no, the non-builders get some one in power to make a law so the non-builders can something for nothing. In the old days, they called that looting. Today it's called liberalism or socialism. That means looters want something for nothing. Who is John Galt?