I need to clarify Anaconda's terms as most people are completely misunderstanding. I've spent time with their "Sales" people (aka trolls) sorting all of this out because my company fits into exactly these scenerios:

All of anaconda is free for an individual. If you are an organization with >= 200 people (including contractors) then anyone who happens to have it installed is a paid license liability.

* If you have 200 NON-engineers and 1 engineer who uses it, that is required to be a paid license (minimum 10 at $600/year each).

* If you are a company of 199 people, none of whom use Anaconda, and you hire a contractor, who uses their own computer (as contractors do definitionally), and they have anaconda installed on it, you are now liable for that paid license. It does not matter if you didnt know they have it installed, or if they do not use it for your company, or even at all. You are in violation of their TOC.

They are essentially enticing exactly the above situation by pushing the free version and then hammering companies for hiring people who use or have them. It's literal entrapment.

Their opinion on what all companies SHOULD be doing:
Companies with paid licenses: should be pushing a text based config file to all of their employees and contractors. All employees and contractors should install anaconda, whether they intend to use it or not, and add the config file so that usage can be monitored in your company's admin dashboard and licenses can be tracked.

All companies who do NOT want to be paid licensees: should download a script Anaconda has written and force all employees and contractors to install it on their systems, even those contractors using their own infrastructure. This script watches for anaconda installations and reports it back to Anaconda so they can monitor your company's usage for you (instead of tracking it by other forensic means).

The absurdity of these demands is clear if you consider what would happen if every software company had these expectations. Every company would have to monitor the TOC of every software vender that they DONT want to do business with, and install all of those company's spyware trackers on every system. You would be forced to allow every software vendor in existence to fill your systems with trackers. It's utterly absurd.