As noted, Leopard comes out tomorrow at 6 PM, some people may be receiving it as early as today and it appears the gold master is already spreading across bittorrent.

The usual question is, when will developers get it?

As noted, a lot of indie developers are left in the lurch, having to endure the lines to purchase Leopard tomorrow if they want to be certain their software works on the gold master.

This is the usual song and dance Apple pulls with new releases. Its been going on since Mac OS X shipped and is my biggest complaint as an NDA-bound paying member of the Apple Developers Connection.

With each and every major release developers go through this.

When will Apple learn? It’s not the developers that leak their precious software.

Even if it was, there is legal recourse built into the ADC agreements if we did.

Developers deserve to have the gold master at the same time, if not a few days before the consumers get it.

Hell, Walt Mossberg got it a week ago to review!

Gee, wonder where that bittorrent leak came from? Apple, Walt or manufacturing perhaps?

Certainly not the developers whom are still working with a buggy pre-gold master seed.

Wonder if Apple will deliver tomorrow or just milk more cash from ADC members whom buy the copy they should have received already.