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Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

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229 points mmoogle | 2 comments | 18 Jul 25 19:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.42s | source
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ridruejo ◴[19 Jul 25 00:13 UTC] No.44611282[source]▶
Hi, former cofounder of Bitnami here. I left VMware quite a while ago, so not involved with this. The technical team at Bitnami is still top notch and great people. I am quite baffled at this business decision.
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jauntywundrkind ◴[19 Jul 25 03:15 UTC] No.44612261[source]▶
Is there a company more "Take what you can, give nothing back" than Broadcom? Probably not.

Broadcom's continued ability to perform well while only serving ever more upmarket areas, & cutting everyone else loose (& generally giving no figs) is fantastically impressive.

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sneak ◴[19 Jul 25 14:36 UTC] No.44615809[source]▶
Oracle.
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nine_k ◴[19 Jul 25 17:23 UTC] No.44617401[source]▶
In fairness, Oracle keeps developing JVM and Java rather nicely, and keeps it open enough. I had expected worse.
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1. okanat ◴[19 Jul 25 21:44 UTC] No.44619711[source]▶
Java has a much stronger open source community with lots of corporate players. If Oracle tried to close the doors on it, everybody can pivot away in much shorter time than Vmware.
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2. pjmlp ◴[20 Jul 25 19:05 UTC] No.44628293[source]▶
Where were all those players when Google torpedoed Sun?

The large majority of work done in OpenJDK is by Oracle employees.

Had it been for most of those players, Java 6 would have been the last version.