"Nonetheless, it never fails to fascinate me when, should we fail to quite meet the level of service an Open Source advocate demands, their reaction is to move to a major brand that will NEVER open it's source in a million years."

FWIW, this is not about open source. If you where to send me/Dredd/whoever else has commented on wanting to write a MacOS version the currently existing sync source with the provision that we could never re-release that source, but could distribute (for free) binaries derived from it, I do not think you would hear many complaints. We are interested in functionality at this point, not trying to force empeg to open source anything you don't want to. You keep saying that you don't have the staff at the moment to deal with other projects, but you seem to be missing the fact that some of your "clients" are offering to do it for you.

-Mike