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Broadcom ends VMware perpetual license sales, testing customers and partners (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 47 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I learned years ago that buying something from a big company instead of using a free open source solution is about aoutsourcing responsibility. Its about being able to sue a company about damages instead of hiring reliable personell to run and write fixes for foss software. Also insurance is much easier.

Not that I follow that advice, my company is still 99% foss software.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Exactly. All enterprise software pricing is about liability and how much blame you can put on the software vendor when everything goes wrong.

Of course, your company's employees are still going to be the ones picking up the pieces but you get to tell your investors "actually it was VMWare's fault". And you can't do that with OSS, even if you're buying support.