On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 17:25:40 -0400, Nicholas Krause said:

Why are we even trying to prove this, it seems any intelligent company who has a interest in staying in business will comply

The problem is companies that have mixed in their own "secret sauce", and are afraid of said sause becoming non-secret as part of their required GPL compliance. If you have a competent legal department, you'll file lots of motions and so on to delay that final court order as long as you can. See VMWare for the details - they've got enough legal staff that it took like 7 years for Hellwig to team up with funded legal support. And it will almost certainly be an eventual loss for VMWare - but they can delay that for months or years. And VMWare certainly doesn't want to release their code - mostly because it's almost certainly a creeping horror worthy of mockery. If you don't believe me, go look at the GPL kernel drivers for VMWare Workstation or Player, which are probably similar to the ESXi code that VMWare would have to release. How bad are the WS/Player drivers? Let's just say that Greg KH probably wouldn't let them into drivers/staging. :)