VMWare Workstation was a great product - I used it right from the very earliest betas on Linux. But somewhere along the line they seemed to stop taking an inter

VMWare Workstation was a great product - I used it right from the very earliest betas on Linux. But somewhere along the line they seemed to stop taking an interest in individual purchasers like me. I stopped getting the reminders to purchase an upgrade license, and then before I noticed I'd fallen off the upgrade treadmill and catching up to a current version was just too expensive to justify.