@EdBoatConnoisseur I haven't heard of such case, but it sounds credible and I would love to read the details.

A search uncovered this gem; https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-responds-to-jobss-thoughts-on-flash

Apple does ships a lot of GNU software with macos, although they stopped updating it when GNU updated to the GPLv3-or-later, as they did not like the enhanced freedom (there's even permission given to tivotize for business-only devices, unlike the GPLv2, which forbids tivotization totally).