Mac DevCenter: Apple Failing to Understand Open Source

“Apple is failing in Open Source and Free Software. It fails to
understand the movement, its principles, and how to leverage it to
make money. This would not be such an issue if Apple had not based
their operating system OS X on Free Software in the form of
NeXT/FreeBSD. Since OS X has taken its place amongst the other
flavors of UNIX it is expected to behave as a responsible citizen
in this community. Apple has failed to do so and its behavior is
getting worse resulting in loss of goodwill from the community. If
you think loss of goodwill is negligible, as apparently Apple does,
you should consider its implications, many of which are already
being realized in the ecosystem that Apple lives in. Not least of
these is security and that is no trivial issue…”

Complete Story