They’re terminating in the sense that they won’t sell it anymore. They’re not breaking the licensing they’ve already sold (mostly, there was some fuckery with activating licensing they sold through third parties)
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mindlight@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Along with the termination of perpetual licensing, Broadcom has also decided to discontinue the Free ESXi Hypervisor, marking it as EOGA (End of General Availability).
Wiktionary: Adjective perpetual (not comparable) Lasting forever, or for an indefinitely long time.
Hello ProxMox here I come!
kn33@lemmy.world 4 months ago
kalpol@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sort of. The activation license will work as long as you have it. They won’t renew support though, which effectively kills it when the support contract runs out.
kn33@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You won’t be able to upgrade to new versions when the support contract runs out, but you can install updates to the existing version as long as updates are made for it. This has always been the lifecycle for perpetual licensing. It’s good forever, but at a certain point it becomes a security risk to continue using. The difference here is they won’t sell you another perpetual license when the lifecycle is up.
TCB13@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Proxmox is questionable open-source, performs poorly and will most likely end up burning the free users at some point.
timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
You know, you can recommend lxd and whatever without putting out FUD about proxmox and other tech.
TCB13@lemmy.world 4 months ago
While I get your point… I kind of can’t: lemmy.world/comment/7476411
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 months ago
What about Proxmox makes its license questionable?