Read your comment again and reflect on how you and others have reached total entitlement mentality. Everybody has to bend over backwards to accommodate you, otherwise "your freedoms are being denied" or it's "an abusive relationship" as another hacker wrote here in the thread. There are real people with real problems in this world. Not being able to install Linux on an iPhone is not a real problem. Either purchase products that suit your use or make products that suit your use, it is beyond being spoiled to demand that somebody else mass produces a product to suit exactly your individual preferences down to the most minute detail.

> I shouldn't be forced to use their software

Nobody has ever tried to force you or other hackers to use any software.

> I should have every right to buy an Apple device and run whatever software I want on it.

You can do that if you have the know-how how to take complete control of the device by soldering and making your own microchips and software. Nobody can stop you from opening your iPhone and doing what you want with it.