You just totally changed what he said. He asked "Have they [the WebKit team] shown any unwillingness to support W3C standards once published?" Let's review the facts of the case you're talking about:
1. The WebKit team wasn't involved
2. Nobody was failing to support a published standard
Was somebody pulling a dick move in the article you posted? Yes. But it was a different group pulling a different dick move than the one tptacek asked about. If you want to argue that Apple's lawyers are a disagreeable lot, I suppose that's a valid point you could make, but this is not the thread for it.
1. The WebKit team wasn't involved
2. Nobody was failing to support a published standard
Was somebody pulling a dick move in the article you posted? Yes. But it was a different group pulling a different dick move than the one tptacek asked about. If you want to argue that Apple's lawyers are a disagreeable lot, I suppose that's a valid point you could make, but this is not the thread for it.