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isn't open code one of the reasons the web became the greatest achievement in history?

Indeed -- and the problem doesn't sound any worse than it is for (say) .NET or Java desktop apps.

Complainers will always complain.

Imagine how nasty would it be when someone decompiles their code and discover lots of, say, GPL code in there...

Is there a lot of GPL'ed C# code out there?

plenty of it, f-spot and banshee being 2 of the most popular. Most of them use Qt# or Gtk#

I bet a lot of it will find its way into proprietary closed-source applications on the WinMo 7 platform...