[killjoy]

Obviously, I support ANY American company when they protect their i.e. US intellectual property. You and your buddies would rather them just give it all away, for nothing.

Then you should cross Sun off your list. They give away Solaris free. You can even get the source code for it.

[Golden Eagle]

Some of Apple is open too, but they are not bound to the GPL license like Linux, that allows foreign governments to rename them, resell them, etc., without any return revenue to the US. "Red Hat" Linux from North Carolina allows the Chicom government to rename their product "Red Flag", and remarket it in Asia, potentially costing the US that entire emerging market from all US software vendors, as China has named "Red Flag" the official operating system of the PRC. And why wouldn't they, if some idiots in the US are willing to give them complete and total control of their new code and features for free?