I've always looked at jailbreaking as a good thing for Apple's iDevice products. Over the years it's helped spur innovation through 3rd party applications, and has more than likely enticed a number of consumers to purchase iDevices who would have otherwise been on the fence.
But apparently not everyone feels this way. A rather interesting article made its way around Twitter last night entitled, "Lockout: iPhone 5, iPad 3 boot jailbreak hackers from platform at last." At one point in the ridiculous post, the author comments that jailbreakers are "using their iPhones as less of a tool and more of a tinker-toy for their geek fantasies."
As a long time member of the jailbreak community, I feel like I'm qualified to respond, and figured I'd go ahead and clear a few things up for our friends over at Beatweek...