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Steve Jobs?

Apple is pretty active in OSS for someone you'd call the polar opposite of RMS.

Oh, yes, they're active, but only in their interest. You won't see apple freeing the source of cocoa...

But they're active right? Who's interests should they be active in? I bet their shareholders are so mad that they didn't follow Sun's lead....

Or Big Brother freeing the source to their Ad-magic.

But Open Source!=Free Software, as I'm sure RMS would point out if he was reading this.

Apple do contribute to open source software, but you certainly don't have freedom when using their products, which is what RMS is all about.

Very good point. Apple uses OSS for the sake of creating better software, not because they believe in any FSF ideals.

Bill Gates?