The GPL was not scrubbed, thats just truism at its best. If we have to choose between you and Bradley Kuhn, i think most reasonable people would take the one being a GPL-expert and part of the open source movement. A paid for lobbyist with no interest whatsoever in open software except when paid for by Redhat and MySQL, not so much.
When Torvalds also says its ok, my personal picture is pretty much already clear and its you that has to prove your right in detail.
Im sure you can find things where PJ has been wrong considering the scope of the case. What interests us mortals is the impressive percentage of times she has been right, not the few time where she was wrong.
Regarding Billski its no surprise its not enforced considering the amount of lobbying from software companies in the US. Software patents are their last defense against open source and without it they will soon be thrown out on a market where software is priced based on its utility, the money printing press will stop running.
TurboHercules is a sad story where IBM wont support their own stuff if its virtualised ontop of a shoddy product like Windows. From a technical standpoint thats more than reasonable, if not painfully obvious.
Its also very obvious who the driving force is behind TurboHercules. Microsoft is gaming the legal system for all their worth, all over the place.