In the days before this site, when we poor cave-developers had to get our news from places like Slashdot, there were regular huge flame-fest threads complaining

In the days before this site, when we poor cave-developers had to get our news from places like Slashdot, there were regular huge flame-fest threads complaining about Apple's lack of "openness" with WebKit. Sure, you could download it, there was code under an OSI-certified license, but they were TERRIBLE HORRIBLE BAD NO-GOOD COMMUNITY MEMBERS because of how they treated the upstream KHTML project they'd started from. Why was it wrong -- so wrong that they were bullied into changing their process -- for Apple to behave this way, wrong enough to get so many people worked up, so many people to care, when Google engages in the same sort of "open license, closed project" behavior and get a pass?