Apple killed Psystar

My view is he doesn't mind FOSS as long as he can use it, but if it starts competing against him he will attempt to destroy it. Mark my words, Apple will eventually sue a FOSS company using software patents. He's already directly sued Linux but through HTC.

I wouldn't be surprised if in some future period RedHat or Ubuntu started eating into Apple market share and Apple then launched a suit against them. He's clearly hostile to FOSS if it competes against Apple in any way. From some of the interviews I've read he's extremely quick to threaten with lawyers. Has everyone forgotten that he sued MS over the look and feel of Windows? Half the patents he sued HTC over are absolutely ridiculous, the equivalent in the physical world would be patents on the location of a switch, frankly I'm astounded the patent office granted them. The key point is he will use them as weapons, far more quickly than MS will.

Apple, like most commercial software companies, would prefer LGPL, BSD, MIT or Apache style licenses. GCC is a major thorn for them, which is why they've made extensive investments in LLVM and Clang.

It's also highly likely that Webkit, their fork of KHTML, was attractive because of it's LGPL license.

Would that be the same Jobs whose NeXT wanted to subvert the GPL licence on GCC by distributing their Objective-C frontend as binary only files?