Well imo not everyone is lucky enough to own Kontakt, so releasing the VST version is still gonna be a great gift for some (or many) of us. I use your strings VSTi on an Indonesian major band release, btw. It's for layering purpose so it won't be really upront but you still can barely hear it within some parts of the song.
Thanks that's encouraging. Sometimes I only see the negatives and forget that the vsts can also be useful. Nice Album, btw. Thanks for the info and the link.