I'm actually agreeing with you. The trick is that the remedy for defrauding a vendor is clear: you pay a fine. I've worked directly with folks who believed that

I'm actually agreeing with you. The trick is that the remedy for defrauding a vendor is clear: you pay a fine. I've worked directly with folks who believed that the only remedy for a GPL violation was completely turning over their entire business to the public domain. That fear kept them from even touching GPL'd code, including in ways that would be completely compliant and beneficial to everyone involved.