In what could make Apple somewhat sick, Mozilla Corp has recently submitted a three page statement claiming that jailbreaking of mobile devices should not be considered as copyright infringement.  The statement is issued after Apple submitted a filing to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act requesting the Copyright Office to declare jailbreaking of the iPhone as illegal. Mozilla Corp submitted their

statement as counter a comment to Apple’s plea. The company in the statement expressed full support to the filing of the Electronic Frontier Foundation to let users jailbreak their devices without the fear of copyright infringement penalties.

Though Mozilla does not mention any particular company in their statement, we all know that Apple is the bone of contention.  Stating strongly against the move to criminalize jailbreaking, Mozilla’s CEO, John Lilly said, “Choice is good for users, and choice shouldn’t be criminalized.” This pertains to the freedom of users to install applications not approved by Apple, but those which are available from third party independent developers. 

Back in January, Electronic Frontier Foundation submitted a request to the US Copyright Office not to consider jailbreaking of the iPhone as legal. Apple seem to be the lone fighter to protect the iPhone from being jailbroken. Companies like eBay Inc, Skype Communications and of course the developer of Cydia, the open source installer of jailbroken iPhones have all voiced support to EFF. And now Mozilla Corp! The decision now lies in the hands of the Copyright Office. Apple has not commented on this latest development.