Apple gives people who want to make use of their beautiful code the finger. Why not do the same to potential Steve Jobs'? If BSD had been licensed under the GNU GPL, OS X would either have to have been built from scratch, or be free software.
So? That doesn't change that Apple usage of FreeBSD codebase is still a net win for the FreeBSD project. It is still a win-win situation even if the win isn't totally symmetrical.
Finally someone that actually understood what I meant. Gaining traction is a lot more important for getting work done than the contributions back from *GPL ever has been.
This argument is consistently colluded with the other argument for open and transparent software. They are two topics independent of each other, IMHO. If you care about open software, it does not imply you care about preventing others from using your software in a leechy fashion.
So you acknowledge today some people do already leech as you put it, under the GPL. It may be a violation, and the other party may laugh as they are in a different juridiction.
So, what was your point again?
We have a law against theft, yet there are continous occurences of people stealing and getting away with it, so by your logic we should remove the law against theft.