Comment by palata

I believe that there is a difference between developers as persons and developers as employees.

As a person, I don't think that I am very likely to pay for the tool I use to develop in my free time.

As an employee, I need to convince my company to pay for the tool. If it is a subscription, that's even worse. So well-known ones like Microsoft tools might already be approved, but for not-so-famous ones, it's harder.

If I want to depend on a third-party library/tool, I need to convince my company that the licence is fine, that the security is fine, and if it's not free I need to convince them to pay for it.