Maybe they aren't evil and keeping it from you (not "releasing" it), instead, don't have a working version they could just press a button and release?

I didn't mean to imply they are evil. It's just my only option is OFW or tethered. The tethered part doesn't bother me as much as the fact that I don't have a laptop anymore so ,short of dragging the entire desk across the flat, I can't jailbreak. And I really want to because there is a lot of great stuff that's being released.

I'm sure I'm not the only person in this predicament.