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    themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

    VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom

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    VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom

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    themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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    Broadcom says it may audit VMware users.
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      Broadcom knows they bought a dying platform. Their strategy is to isolate the customers incapable of ever migrating and charge them as close to near bankruptcy as possible. They’ll get their initial return on investment in under 5 years and then eventually just let VMware die because new businesses that are still nimble all moved to other platforms anyway. They’ll hit Lotto tickets with a few whales and keep 5-10 devs on to patch stuff for those whales and print 100-1000x return on costs in perpetuity.

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        That is … bleak.

        I suspect you are correct.

        RemindMe in 5 years
        #I know that doesn’t work here

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          I think I’ve seen people using this on Lemmy, but I’m not sure if it works: https://fedi.tips/is-there-a-reminder-bot-for-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/

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          (And that god that bot doesn’t work here)

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        Capitalism is the woooooorst…

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