Eh, I may get dragged up in front of a judge and sued one day, but I'd rather know that I did it as somebody with some chutzpah.
"Welp, we can't buy that house we were saving up for 15 years for, because I decided i wanted to take a stand and use the WTFPL". No offense, really, but that's not chutzpah, it's stupidity.
Everybody who does software would prefer a better, less legally climate, and yet few seem willing to put skin in the game.
A better question is this: since we seem hellbent on not having any sort of accredited professional status, why are we surprised that this is an issue?
Tell this to the java model railroad guy.
A single person who never expected to be sued over open source model railroad software.
He in fact, spent over 100k on the defense, AFAIK, and it did in fact cause him serious financial hardship. This is despite the fact that his lawyer (a wonderful woman) was doing the best she could to keep his costs down.
You know, I was expecting to be really really sad reading that.
Like, I pictured a really nice old dude with a big white bushy beard and conductor's overalls and a blue hat crying as he had to sell off his pike to pay legal fees against some overzealous corporate lawyer, only to pass away a few weeks later from diabetes (his now-grown children laying in his coffin the one train car that escaped the lawsuit-caused liquidation of assets, a reminder of better times).
Instead, I found a tale of people being assholes to each other over copyright and patents and cybersquatting--further evidence that we should re-examine all those things.
Again, so happy to be wrong.