Better yet, how about "Zed needs to learn manners or I will rip his mouth apart."
Please execuse my English.

Just nitpicking, but Konfabulator was a shareware, not OSS. Spotlight was predated by Sherlock 2 which was released as a part of Mac OS 8.5, years before beagle's 0.0.0 release.

I agree with your point, Apple 'borrows' ideas and code from anywhere regardless of their origins, but at least get the facts straight and don't guess if you really don't know. It only undermines your claim.

and Apple usually does it right more often than others when it comes to UI.

You can call me an Apple fanboy.