Consumers buying a Pre aren't idiots. Ed Colligan and Roger Macnamee were douche bags for spouting BS and the Pre is just another phone among many.

What I would not feel comfortable with doing however, is running a hacked tethering option on Sprint which they're likely going to shut down before it even gets mildly popular.

Palm themselves have already threatened that they may have to take legal action to force the shutdown of the wiki where the hacking and tethering were first discussed if the tethering talk isn't eliminated.

BTW, the iPhone 3GS, which is officially out in three days, has seemingly already sold many more units than the Pre in the US. It's a good thing that the Pre isn't competing with the iPhone but instead the Blackberry. I do find it incredible though, considering AT&T is so utterly crap by all accounts.