Microsoft licensing costs are a rounding error compared to the cost of employees for a business. "Free" and "Alternative" are valid comparison terms if you are

Microsoft licensing costs are a rounding error compared to the cost of employees for a business. "Free" and "Alternative" are valid comparison terms if you are thinking of industries such as Shared Hosting and use-cases of PHP. There is a reason why MS makes the billions it does every year with "free alternatives" on the market... Because they solve a lot of problems for some people.