Indeed! Especially big corps seem to prefer software with clear licensing terms and a capability to license software for organization at scale. In that competition the software with better licensing options win, not the cheaper one necessarily.
And the cheaper software is cheaper only if you apply no cost to retraining, taking the product in use in your existing production pipeline and so on.
This writing is not very well put together and ignores several facets of large corporations.
> If your closed software demands $1000 from my pocket but I can make do with a free and open source alternative, I will choose the open one.
Sorry but software purchasing decisions aren't simply based on cost and never will.