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

• fishpen0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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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  • MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That is … bleak.

    I suspect you are correct.

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

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    • dimah@crazypeople.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      You mean in 3.5 years because they purchased VMWare in 2023 and according to analysts they’re already well on their way to recovering and profiting from the 61 billion dollar merger

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    • turtle@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Capitalism is the woooooorst…

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