> I doubt any licensing makes your phone more stable Sure it does. Without open-source software to base their work on, Apple would have had to start from scrat

> I doubt any licensing makes your phone more stable Sure it does. Without open-source software to base their work on, Apple would have had to start from scratch and possibly never get the project into a usable state. (In fact, they did actually try several multiple times to replace Mac OS 9 with an in-house-developed OS, before eventually buying NeXT, whose OS was rebranded as OS X and ultimately became iOS).