> Gee, wouldn't it have been nice if they'd had to make a business
> case to upper management about their decision.
>
> "Yes, we could have brought X to market x months quicker, but we
> LIKE FreeBSD and think our likes are more important than the
> architecture of our product or our time to market."

If they had done that, OSX would be based on the Win2K kernel...you know
how those upper management people like Windows.