VMware has announced that its VMware Fusion and VMware Workstation desktop hypervisors are now free to everyone for commercial, educational, and personal use.
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VMware has announced that its VMware Fusion and VMware Workstation desktop hypervisors are now free to everyone for commercial, educational, and personal use.
Yuvraj Hanspal
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Maxi 10x 💉
in reply to Andrew Zonenberg • • •@azonenberg @hacks4pancakes @yuvrajhanspal First, they were shifting away from their proprietary hypervisor to KVM for the Workstation, now they are making the consumer products free.
My hypothesis about what is happening here: #Broadcom wants to cut these products entirely, they don’t make much money. The devs want to save their lifework and got Broadcom to freeware the products in a first step. With enough luck, they can further convince Broadcom to make them FLOSS.
#VMware
Bjoern Michaelsen
in reply to Lesley Carhart :unverified: • • •John Timaeus
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Guessing they've already stopped dev. And also guessing they know that there's a deep security flaw that can't be fixed.
Purely speculation, but I'll bet a decent bottle that it's a vm escape.
@yuvrajhanspal @BleepingComputer
Billy O'Neal
in reply to Lesley Carhart :unverified: • • •@hacks4pancakes @yuvrajhanspal In fairness, as a desktop virtualization product, nobody has matched Workstation from even years ago, so even if they stopped dev now it would be a while before it would be eclipsed.
I'm still pining for a Hyper-V that is as useful as a desktop virtualization solution as VMWare Workstation. I ended up switching to Hyper-V primarily because it was already in the box and Workstation wasn't better *enough* to justify $200/year.
For I am CJ :screwattack: :black_sparkling_heart: :screwattack:
in reply to Lesley Carhart :unverified: • • •@hacks4pancakes @yuvrajhanspal
I suspect this is a combination of a 'freemium' play and also forcing more people to create 'Broadcom' accounts... for the spying... er, I mean 'analytics'
Broadcom has bigly jealousy over the amount of 'consumer info' that Oracle's spyware, spyware, advertising, etc. businesses have stockpiled on people... and Broadcom definitely wants to 'Be Like Mike' in their own aspirations to stockpile info about consumers
Freemium = the more people who are familiar with the 'consumer' product... the more likely those people are to want to interact with VMware 'at work'
Which is not to say that Broadcom won't kill Workstation/ Fusion off... there will vey likely be a large round of layoffs in VMware's future...
- Broadcom has alienated so many of their paying customers who are now dealing with enough pain/ added cost to make it worthwhile to finally get out of the VMware ecosystem
geoffeg
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