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like the ultimate freedom Apple enjoys, sucking BSD licensed code freely, giving little back (except when enforced in case of khtml/webkit) and using software patents against others using open source software.


That's a very interesting reinterpretation you have there which happens to tragically overlap little with truth. Seriously, claiming that they "give little back (except when enforced)" is just plain untrue. You can go download PureDarwin right now if you want to see what is probably the bulk of their "BSD licensed code". Or go look at Apple's open-source page[1] for a list of highly not-[L]GPL projects for which Apple's modifications are available.

Like their sizable contributions to LLVM, which is NCSA-licensed. Or their whole-cloth release of Darwin under the APSL (a license that even the FSF agrees fits their definition of 'free'). Or their release of Bonjour (wholly in-house development, if I'm not mistaken) under the Apache license.

[1] - http://www.apple.com/opensource/




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