I see two issues with licensed systems for large enough workload. One is scale of cost. Enterprise software charges by some normalized server configuration (CPU

I see two issues with licensed systems for large enough workload. One is scale of cost. Enterprise software charges by some normalized server configuration (CPU, memory, and etc. MinIO seems an exception, though). As a result, the cost of the license can grow to be prohibitive for large workload. Another is that enterprise licenses usually do not allow users to modify the software easily, while for any significant workload, we almost always need to add code for smooth operations.