> I gotta say that I think this is just not a big deal for most people. I'm assuming by "people" you mean pirates like VMWare or mindless end users like yourse

> I gotta say that I think this is just not a big deal for most people. I'm assuming by "people" you mean pirates like VMWare or mindless end users like yourself, since it's a huge deal for developers. When I make the conscious decision to license my work for others to use under the GPL instead of something completely permissive like MIT, I clearly don't want some commercial enterprise ripping off my work and using it to line their own pockets without even contributing back their modifications.