As someone that has been involved it in hacking apple products and making some pocket change from it in a past life, I hardly think apple has a reputation for disliking these people. If anything, apple looks at what people come up with 'off the ranch' and pulls it into their own stuff if they like it. Apple may have this 'reputation,' but it's purely because the press wants to have it painted this way. I'm no fanboy or anything, I've had a business crushed at their hands; as an engineer and a business guy, I find their decisions to be relatively rational and I was well aware of what was coming well before it was delivered.

People like to point to the guy on top as big and evil. Rightnow it's Apple, 12-15 years ago it was Microsoft. Tomorrow it could be Google.

What about the Hymn project? http://hymn-project.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2496

What about Psystar?

I had a similar response to Blizzard over bnetd[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnetd

One considerable difference between Apple and Sony Hackers is, Apple makes money from App Developers while Sony doesn't.