Broadcom sends cease-and-desist letters to subscription-less VMware users
Broadcom says it may audit VMware users.
Enshittification continues to prove inevitable for successful proprietary software.
I've been pretty impressed with proxmox so far. Just saying.
As a homelabber, I finally got around to installing it a few months back. I do have some wish list items that seem like common sense things that have been in the works for years, but I do love it compared to the horror of running everything from my main desktop and just never turning it off.
I'm using Proxmox, but I've read great things about incus. Any thoughts?
It's designed for container orchestration, I think. I tried setting up a regular VM and it wasn't smooth.
Broadcom are dicks.
Similarly, users online have reported receiving cease-and-desist letters even though they haven't issued updates since losing VMware support. One user on Spiceworks’ community forum reported receiving such a letter even though they migrated off of VMware and to Proxmox.
I switched to proxmox last summer and found it quite nice.
You know you are a lovely business when your customers don't use you because they like your product but rather because they feel trapped.
There are many options. the money you send braodcomm would make the option source options really good in not long. But that means a vision and investment for the future.
Some customers of Members IT Group, a managed services provider (MSP) in Canada, have received this letter, despite not receiving VMware updates since their support contracts expired, CTO Dean Colpitts told Ars. One customer, he said, received a letter six days after their support contract expired.
They will for sure push an automatic update after this and sue.
The ORACLE Way
Oh ORACLE
One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison
I dont see how that could be legal.
Microsoft did label a Windows Server Upgrade accidentally as a security patch once, causing Servers to upgrade, thus requiring a new license
https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/08/windows_2025_surprise_install/
Thats a bit heavy handed of Broadcom. But it shouldn't be a shock.
With them suing att and Siemens about licensing stuff no doubt the are going to go after smaller orgs too hoping the thread of the suit will force them to buy licensing.
I am confused. How can you accidentally push a patch you have no license to acquire?
You can't. This is a scare tactic.
These licensing deals are cancer. Just parasites trying to leech lol
Fuck em. Foss as much as possible, donate if you got cash to spare. Never pay your oppressors folks!
It really sucks ass when you have a Cisco voice system. I can't even get a quote from my Cisco VAR to update b/c Broadcom isn't replying to small quote requests, but are pulling shit like this for old-ass v6.5 installations like ours that only have 2 hosts and 6 vm's.
Sounds like Kaseya should look into purchasing Broadcom. Their strategies seem to align.
