The increase is massive ( I’ve heard x5 over existing contracts in some places )
replyAh, 5x? At $WORK, the low code tool vendor that is used to build the monolith (and that of our sister company) is bought by a private equity firm. Our sister company will face a 7x increase. Another fun thing is that the license is based on a percentage of licensing cost to their customers.
replyTheir game is clearly to squeeze very hard for a few years, and then deprecate the product. I can't imagine that there are companies that are fine with such price hikes.
Not only that, add dip downs in quality. For instance, VMware was famous for stuter-less graphics, now it's a 15 FPS show.
replyMilking customers is already a thin ice but in combination with declining quality it's a death sentence.
Fork?
replyAre you under the impression that VMware is free open source software?
replyYes, I was, actually.
replyfair enough, you're one of today's (un)lucky 10,000! (https://xkcd.com/1053/)
replyVMWare has always been proprietary, there's been some handwringing a few times about the fact that they borrow from FOSS quite a bit.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-developer-abandons-vmwar...