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

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That's the thing, it doesn't do updates. This is just to scare people into paying.

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The article says the letter demanded they uninstall updates to the point before their contract ended.

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[–] colforge@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It also says this same letter has been going out to users days after their contracts expired, regardless of whether any updates had been installed and even if the user had migrated to another service.

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Exactly, if their software keeps working and allowing updates and they don't know what the end user is doing then it's a them problem. If they didn't bake in telemetrics to know what version each license key is using then it's on them.

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[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 1 year ago

They probably have a good cease and desist on Broadcomm for automatically installing updates on their system against the contract.

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