Shoestring startups would use a $10 shareware database, which is still a proprietary commercial database. Or they would use the stripped-down, free/cheap versio

Shoestring startups would use a $10 shareware database, which is still a proprietary commercial database. Or they would use the stripped-down, free/cheap version of the $100k database. Or they would pirate it and scramble to make $100k before they get caught.