• catloaf@lemm.ee
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        It’s designed for container orchestration, I think. I tried setting up a regular VM and it wasn’t smooth.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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

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    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.

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    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!

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    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.