> In reality, Apple are doing far more freeloading off of other projects than Spotify is doing off of them, legal or no.

You cannot make any moral assumptions here because the whole point of many of these open-source projects is that people can use them freely, with no obligation - moral, or otherwise - to contribute back.

> should be a free marketplace, like how regular GNU/Linux package repositories have worked for decades.

Yup, this'll end beautifully. It won't devolve into a malware-ridden mess that destroys the privacy and security of users. The users that pay for a curated ecosystem and idiot-proof privacy/security.

Package repositories might be great for the HN crowd. But I think it's fairly blind to think it won't harm Apple's target audience.