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Threatening to sue your customers is such a brilliant business move.
It's also the business model of Oracle I think and they are wildly successful.
Who are Oracle's customers?
MBAs
Anyone who uses Oracle DB or virtualbox in a corporate environment
I'm forced to work with Oracle databases, FML I hate it so much
Why? I get that the company is awful, but the database is quite good, isn't it?
Not only is it worse than Postgres by almost every metric, they actively sue people who criticize it. I.e. even Hacker News took this post down: https://archive.is/ryseO
The CIA
Project Oracle babyyyy
They have some very big military contracts
I think it had something to do with Broadcom wanting to go for a few big customers and don't want to deal with the small fry anymore.
Surely no competitors will grow in the small and medium business market to eventually be a competitor...
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.
That is ... bleak.
I suspect you are correct.
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Capitalism is the woooooorst...
It's a valid business strategy to kick your low-paying customers to the curb and focus on the big spenders. Did the same with my little PC business back in the day. The small fry cost shitloads to support and are generally more bitchy.
But HOLY shit did Broadcom kick 'em down. I've never seen such an in-your-face business move to squeeze the cash cow as hard as possible, tank the company, grab the money and run.
People can say, and have been from day-1, "I'll never use their shit again!" That's fine with Broadcom, it's literally their plan.
The RIAA special
Especially those who are perfectly in the right legally and morally.