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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It's a shame that competition for this position has been ramping up lately.
Sadly, it feels like an inevitability at this point.
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.
- 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.