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VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom

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Broadcom says it may audit VMware users.
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    It’s also the business model of Oracle I think and they are wildly successful.

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      Who are Oracle’s customers?

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        MBAs

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        Anyone who uses Oracle DB or virtualbox in a corporate environment

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          I’m forced to work with Oracle databases, FML I hate it so much

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            Why? I get that the company is awful, but the database is quite good, isn’t it?

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              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

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        They have some very big military contracts

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        The CIA

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          Project Oracle babyyyy

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