It Strikes Me....

It strikes me that a phone that uses Linux inside but has locked down DRM is a far greater offence than say a phone with a proprietary OS and locked down DRM. I'm reading here about the motorola Linux based phones... But then I am also finding it very hard to track down info on how to develop for those phones. 95% of what I seem to be finding is how to unlock these phones... Which again strikes me with the thought that "hey, wasn't it also some sort of heinous offence to sell a locked phone too?"... Oh my head hurts with all these strikes....