Why do people I respect like Apple so much ?

I honestly can't think of any organization in history that has been more closed, proprietary, controlling and just outright evil than Apple.

Why do many people I respect in the Open Source community have Apple hardware? Why do they seem so gleeful when bragging about having and using Apple products?

I'm clearly missing something. Please enlighten me.

- Don

The Aptana Public License

There's been a few comments regarding Aptana's Public License:

http://ketan.padegaonkar.name/2007/09/05/source-opening-of-open-source.html
http://mea-bloga.blogspot.com/2007/09/source-open.html
http://www.evolvedlight.co.uk/theaptanaopensourcestab-in-the-back

Paul Colton from Aptana has opened up a dialog on his blog and on the Aptana Forums.

- Don