I really wish that when TechRepublic puts out articles such as these that they inform the readers that some of these products (and likely most of them) are only "free" for home use. Granted some of the software publishers make it really difficult to determine this by either not publishing the EULA on their site or creating some other sort of vagueness.
Two Cents stated not being able to find the EULA for malwarebytes on their site and from that made the assumption that it is indeed "free" even for business use. Your co-workers are correct, it is not free for business use:
http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=68008It is not even free for government use. We made a direct inquiry to them and were told that it can only be installed on the number of computers you license it for.