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I assume this action is intended to drive freeloading business users to a paid platform but it is also going to choke off the pipeline of homelab VMware users w

• skinner927 3y ago
  We’d all like to pretend this matters but Adobe pulled the plug on bootleg Photoshop years ago and it doesn’t appear to have hurt them.
  • wolpoli 3y ago
    Hobbyists are only useful during the growth phase when companies are competing with each other for Market shares.
    • misswaterfairy 3y ago
      Disagree. They're also useful if they're a decision-maker looking for a different solution. If I were a virtualisation tech company right now I'd be throwing free non-commercial or limited commercial use licences around to try to steal Broadcom's market share.
  • xela79 3y ago
    Adobe Premiere on Windows was for a very long time the de facto standard, but them stopping to provide affordable personal usage perpetual licenses, just opened the gateway for alternatives, and Da Vinci Resolve really stepped up here, allowing to you run it for free with a majority of features available. and ESXi free version with reduced features offered the same approach. This broadcom change will push the majority to alternatives, for personal and professional use. previously there was basically no contender for polished enterprise ready hypervisors, small business were all VMware shops. These will all convert to alternative technologies, shifting the balance. vmware might turn out to be the AS400 of hypervisors...