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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 47 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

when Broadcom took over VMware in November 2023, it would not honor the deal and instead tried to get Tesco to pay “excessive and inflated prices for virtualization software for which Tesco has already paid”

If you use proprietary software you don't own it. no matter how much you legally licensed it. So this is what you always risk.
But fuck Broadcom for being worse than average bordering on illegal.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 27 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

Agreed. Fuck Broadcom.

But I sure hope the "unnamed" virtualization software that they're migrating to is FOSS, otherwise they're going to inevitably run into this problem again.

[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

And will they donate back even one percent of the fees they would have paid so the open source software can be maintained. Naaaaaah!

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago