Linux was not and is not cheap at all. Downloading it might be free, but the initial price doesn't matter compared the cost of running it for a whole organization.
We are literally in a threat complaining that the cost of Windows is wildly higher than the cost of buying a box copy of the software. So yeah, in this context Linux is free.
this is true; they look at dollar amounts first and do not look at quality; repeated over and over by people .. and it feels nobody seems to even care.
