Very disappointing behaviour by Jolla especially after all the publicly stated claims to support FOSS principles.

If you cannot have full and unfettered access to hardware that you have purchased you may as well throw it into the sea.

Locking the boot loader means it is harder to ensure that NSA, GCHQ or other snoopers are kept out of your system. Makes me wonder if there was any pressure applied to the Jolla team from interested parties like the Chinese to lock down these phones for the purposes of state control of users.

Just so glad I read this before updating my phone. Unless this policy is reversed then this will be the fastest self obsoleting piece of hardware I have ever purchased

Richard