Jobs has always been leery (at best) of licensing his tech. He seems to have a pathological fear of giving up control of anything. It's why the PC won out over the Apple architecture--anybody could always build to the PC platform, but for, well, ever, nobody but Apple could build an Apple. Competition and copious supply made the PC a no-brainer for the accountants.

(It's also a big reason why the PC platform has historically been buggier than the Apple platform--and why the Apple platform is going to get buggier in the future--but that's another rant.)

So it doesn't surprise me that it wasn't a pitch to license FairPlay.

It also doesn't surprise me that slashdot is knee-jerking. Why does it surprise you? :)