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Rooting is to Android like Jailbreaking to iPhone. Out of the box, the phone is on a guest account. Rooting pretty much gives you superuser (or administrator) access to your phone.

From Cyanogen's website:
Obtaining root ("administrator", or "full") access to your phone. This means you can mount its internal memory partition as read/write, which lets you do various things: have Wi-Fi tethering (on
 
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