Robertson to Malik: "Personally, I don't want a world where the store shelf has 20 different identical telephone adapters: on locked to Vonage, one locked to AT&T, one locked to Verizon, etc. What a mess! Thank god analog modem, DSL modem and cable modem didn't go down that path."

To me this looks like a classic case where justice will prevail over fairness. The right outcome is that the courts find that locking devices like this is a bad thing and is fundamentally unfair to end-users. The more likely outcome is that it will be tossed out because there isn't anything inherently illegal about Vonage's marketing tactics.