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Apple benefits from lots of GNU open source code, then decides to keep the crown jewels (X86 kernel) a dark secret? Sounds like corporate hypocricy to me.

This is a plain example of why the GPL version 3 is such a good idea. Just as it would require a company like Tivo to remove its DRM (or provide a back door), so it would open up the Intel Apple machines (with their similar DRM chips). I'm sure there are many companies that have broken open source licenses - maybe Apple is one such and should be prosecuted to release all code connected to any GPL license? Who goes after license offenders?

At least the Sun commitment to Open Source is total - they are even GPL'ing their SPARC chips.