OTOH, you get gigabytes of useless crap bundled with a typical Linux distro...
Fixed it for you.
You'll probably have to dedicate a portion of a headcount to keep track of all your licenses (or let BSA do it for you, at a substantial cost).
Why would you need to dedicate headcount when a simple compliance app like
this (one of many available) will do it for you? Keep trying.
The absense of real numbers to support TCO assertions might indicate that there aren't any.
Wrong. It suggests that this article didn't name any.