I don't think I explained myself very well (edit: and I am typically oversensitive to suggestions that enterprise software isn't a genuinely difficult and impor

I don't think I explained myself very well (edit: and I am typically oversensitive to suggestions that enterprise software isn't a genuinely difficult and important undertaking). My point was that there is a lot of work that needs to be done to make software usable in an enterprise environment that is orthogonal to the license. A lot of that work is simply not a problem for most individuals. It's demonstrable that these features are orthogonal to license, because they were expected before OSS became a norm. LDAP/SAML/OAuth/OIDC/whatever integrations, online backups, auditing, accounting and usage, multi-tenancy, credential management, file integrity, mandatory access control, etc etc. There are thousands -- literally thousands -- of things that enterprises collectively want that individuals and small teams don't even think about. A lot of OSS efforts acquire these capabilities because an enterprise vendor sponsored their development. Hence my point that "a single throat to choke" is only a slice of the value we and our competitors add.