Agreed, and it's amazing how quickly Apple has been able to shift the terms of the debate on this. It's now apparently an extreme position ("abolitionist" in Gruber's post) that if Alice creates a program and wants to send it to Bob, they should be able to accomplish that without begging for permission from the computer manufacturer.
In some sense, the shift in debate came as soon as DRM became acceptable to most people. Apple has capitalized on this shifted ground, to be sure, but I think that the iPad debates are reflective of a much more general struggle and debate.
