It's not the people that are jerks: it's the corporations, the "shareholder returns above all else" mentality. While the corps may occasionally throw some crumbs to open source, it is in many cases selfish. Android does not exist because Google is being nice.. and anything MS does is likely part of an "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy. Hard to trust.
What would you consider a pure software ecosystem?
RE: Tormenting my Wife via Open Source Software