I don’t have a ton of experience in corporate IT, however, I can say that licensing is far from “the simplest things”, and the penalties outlined for noncompliance can be pretty disastrous.

You sound like someone with very little life experience. Every company I've ever worked at also did the same. Seems like human nature.

Government power is such a waste of our money. The idiots that want the government to take over healthcare just don’t grok how much money will be wasted and how little will actually make it to care.