I understand that after the cloak-and-dagger way that Nokia ran things, people are a bit sensitive about these things, but I really wish people would stop having tantrums every time something like this happens.

This is still a long way from Aegis, and seems to be an emergency measure after what I assume was a stern telling off by some service provider that threatened to block Jolla devices otherwise. If the choice were between this and something like MfE stopping working, I'll take the locked-but-circumventable bootloader. The N900 was never supported by exchange servers that required provisioning, for exactly these kinds of reasons.

Jolla's intentions are to be open, but they also need to be commercially viable. Those two aims are often in conflict, but if they ignore the second then they'll end up in the same fringe Maemo was condemned to. They're also small, so we can't expect finely crafted, legally acrobatic, solutions from the start.

Give em time, and please stop throwing your Jollas in the sea. The Baltic has enough heavy metal in it already.