How is this even a flame?  :-)  It's true.  Forget the negative connotations of "virus", and realize that GPL transmits itself from software to software in a viral fashion, and that is exactly its purpose.  Also keep in mind that Richard Stallman hates closed source and commercial software.  Tell me he wouldn't agree with that statement, and then look at some old GNU manuals with the mockeries of commercial software guys with money falling out of their pockets (if only that were true, I could afford my house more easily).

This is a discussion of distribution methods, and I think it's worth people re-visiting this, maybe not in this forum, but to consider their options and the consequences :-)

Dave