Do people building anything real world care about IE6 any more? Hell, do they really care about 7?
The way I see it, about half of my salary is for caring about IE7. IE7 hacks and stupidities occupy no more than 5-10% of my time, but the way I see it, 80% of my work is damn fun and I would do it for free. I am glad that there is the remaining 20% of IE7 hacking, boss-assigned-task-doing, and so on for which I (consider myself to) get paid 5x my actual salary.