Yeah, similar story for me - Jordan was pretty active on the FreeBSD UKUG mailing lists at the time, I remember him announcing his move to Apple and that prompted me to finally pull the trigger on a shiny new Powerbook.

Apple's oftentimes half-assed open-source dalliances aside, it's always felt good to have someone legit like Jordan at Apple. Definitely their loss - but hopefully he'll do good things at iXsystems.