Some irrationality will always exist and some people can afford to have a phobia against a software license if they work in a industry with little or no competi

Some irrationality will always exist and some people can afford to have a phobia against a software license if they work in a industry with little or no competition. It a similar to the trade off in using google analytics, where some companies are can afford to allow google to data mine the traffic in return for analytics, while others either value their user data as being too valuable to give away or have legal obligation that prevents them to send it to a third party outside their jurisdiction and control. There is a growing trend in EU that giving over traffic data is not really acceptable (or legal) if they represent personal data. Here in Sweden there was a lot of embarrassing leaks where classified information got mishandled and government contracts with IBM broke the law as data left the country. Just a few months later a major medical scandal happened where audio recordings of patients slipped out and the medical confidentiality was broken. The cost is climbing high, and together with GDRP it is really pushing demands that data do not leave the border. Naturally one can always spend the money to develop a custom system, but then we come back to the problem of competition and budget constrains. It is not easy to get such projects green lighted, especially if some engineer comes up and suggest that they can just use some free software and put that developer time on more important things.