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MathiasPius ◴[28 Aug 25 05:39 UTC] No.45048784[source]▶
Between the VMware licensing changes and this, it looks like Broadcom is making a serious play at dethroning Oracle as the most evil software vendor.

It's a shame that competition for this position has been ramping up lately.

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1. martypitt ◴[28 Aug 25 08:01 UTC] No.45049641[source]▶
I'm still waiting to see how Broadcom will monetize the Spring ecosystem - which is widely used in almost all large enterprises.

Sadly, it feels like an inevitability at this point.

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2. arcanemachiner ◴[28 Aug 25 08:23 UTC] No.45049775[source]▶
Good lord, I didn't know their tentacles were that deep. VMware sure had a lot of touch points.
3. abraae ◴[28 Aug 25 10:28 UTC] No.45050482[source]▶
Holy shit, Broadcom owns Spring? Yikes.
4. zdkaster ◴[28 Aug 25 11:16 UTC] No.45050791[source]▶
That's probability of 1.0, the missing question is when.
5. ahoka ◴[28 Aug 25 12:03 UTC] No.45051124[source]▶
Yes, same here. Wonder how they will try to monetize it.
6. uzername ◴[28 Aug 25 12:10 UTC] No.45051187[source]▶
My team is worried about that too. We've been a java and spring shop for years. We're looking at micronaut, it's similar enough.

When I had someone from another team take a look at broadcom and what they could do to spring, they said the licenses are permissive, it will be fine. Likely not that simple.

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7. martypitt ◴[28 Aug 25 13:00 UTC] No.45051645[source]▶
My guess will be:

- Shorter support windows, with longer support available for purchase (VMWare actually introduced this, but Broadcom can weaponize it)

- Then Enterprise Spring, which has additional features

- Then some other license shenaningans.

Hazelcast recently made the move where CVE security updates are only released into the OSS ecosystem quarterly - whereas the enterprise model gets them as soon as they're ready. In OSS, you have to rebuild and patch yourself.

That's a special kind of evil, which has Broadcom DNA all over it.