Yeah? I'm not sure what you thought I was confused about, but I am well aware of that.

No, you honestly seem quite confused about the whole thing. It sounds like you've been put off GPL at some point but haven't actually grasped the issues surrounding it and therefore cannot rationalise your beliefs in any way.

Companies like Microsoft with huge marketing departments hate the GPL because they don't like their users to be free. It's part of their business strategy to keep people locked in. That alone should tell you it's probably not for for you. Sadly you seem to have been taken by their bs, though.