I never fully understood why some people want the OS to be fully open source. When the market is that much competitive and Chinese manufacturers create quickly thousand of clones of devices and when Chinese immitations of N95 or N97 are abundent on the market (like there are Chinese clones of Sony, JVC or Panasonic video cameras), why give them the software that cost a company to develop millions for free to other Asian companies (in an utopia that maybe those companies will also contribute to the code and improve it).

Too much Open Source Free software might be good not that good for the developers of it - do you see Movie productions or Music productions that are FREE?

As a software developer that I know how hard is to develop software, if all the software is open source and free, then nothing to sell anymore in the software production, where will the software developers get a job? Korbe, do you give them a job?

Because Movie Companies and Music Companies don't give anything for free, and I think being an actor is more fun than being a programmer, so why don't you ask the Entertainment companies to give all they produce as Open and Free? They don't and they hunt you down if you illegaly copy some MP3 music tunes or a film. But some want the software to be just free. And I know what is the difference between Free like "Libre" and Free like "Gratis/Gratuit". From the companies in competition there is not much difference when the software is "Open"/"Libre" then it is almost "Free" to get and use, so the huge effort (financial and human) invested in it is just taken for free by another company, that may or may not contribute back.

And why Apple does not even allow to install the binaries of Mac OSX (not talking about the source code, just the output-binaries) into other PC? (now that Macs are x86 based-architecture). Apple doesn't give even the binaries to other companies, see, that is business.