"They /always/ have [treated their developer community like garbage]. In 1984 I went to Cupertino to get their dev kit. I stood in line for fours hours, filled out more paperwork that it takes to buy a house...." Today all you have to do is download it. http://developer.apple.com/tools/ What's wrong with XCode and Apple's Developer Connection? »

It's no surprise that Linux does well in the telecommunications infrastructure because it designed and works like UNIX. UNIX has been there for over 30 years. UNIX was invented in a telecommunications company. Microsoft got a small foothold when marketing people directing telecommunications software development (who hadn't yet heard of Linux) thought Windows NT would replace UNIX. Instead Linux is doing that. »