UPDATE: While I personally think that Apple has fast become the embodiment of closed. I respect CEOs who take risks. Plenty of CEOs (in fact all the ones I know) would never even think of insulting a past present or future vendor partner. For each CEO I Respect I can think of a moment that they were dead wrong.

Bill Gates said Linux would never be secure because people working for free in their spare time don't do good work. Then came the age where the would could not operate without the security that Linux provides.