Put another way: "Apple pays project leader Bay Area salary + pre-iPhone AAPL stock to support open source development for more than a decade." (There are certa

Put another way: "Apple pays project leader Bay Area salary + pre-iPhone AAPL stock to support open source development for more than a decade." (There are certainly more projects Apple relies on that deserve this!) Most of Apple's extinguished open source projects are ones they started themselves and then abandoned.