The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has proposed and exemption to the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) to allow jailbreaking of the iPhone. A move Apple opposes. The EFF is now being backed by two semi heavy hitters in the software world: Mozilla and Skype.

Mozilla and Skype obviously have reasons to want the iPhone to be open. In the case of Mozilla the company would like to see Firefox on the iPhone and Skype wouldn’t mind giving iPhone users a low cost way of making calls. That the motives aren’t purely altruistic noted bith companies have rousted the legal dogs and put together comments for the copyright office. (Mozilla’s pro jailbreak PDF, Skype’s pro jailbreak PDF)

via Macworld