Yes, this is something I've seen around quite a lot.
There's some just don't know, some take the attitude "it's on the net so I can use it" and then I've encountered people who are scared into going to the other extreme - linux is GPL therefore we have to release our software product on BSD if we don't want to open source the whole thing!
Some of the big corporates are quite hot on education in this area, but their actual FOSS-related proceses can be byzantine and weird.