If your enterprise with a large engineering team that isn’t a software company, you are a cost center. So anything related to developer tools is rarely funded.

If your enterprise with a large engineering team that isn’t a software company, you are a cost center. So anything related to developer tools is rarely funded. It will mostly be - use the free stuff and suck it up. Either that or you have a massive process to acquire said licenses with multiple reporting requirements. So, you manager doesn’t need the headache and says just use the free stuff and move on. I used to use docker. I use podman now. Are there teams in my enterprise who have docker licenses - maybe. But tracking them down and dealing with the process of adding myself to that “list” isn’t worth the trouble.