IMO the licensing needs to be free and very simple. For me, this has always been one of the HUGE benefits of linux. If I have an idea I can spin up a full serv

IMO the licensing needs to be free and very simple. For me, this has always been one of the HUGE benefits of linux. If I have an idea I can spin up a full server stack (OS, SQL, HTTPD, etc.) for $0 (outside of hardware/hosting). With linux there is no friction you need to overcome in determining if the cost of trying something out is worth the financial side. The elastic hosting options take away a lot of this, but there is still (to me at least) this mental barrier to Windows in knowing that I might run into licensing costs or administration issues before I determine if the project itself is worth said cost.