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VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong

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245 points rntn | 3 comments | 08 Sep 25 12:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.612s | source
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bluGill ◴[08 Sep 25 13:48 UTC] No.45168227[source]▶
I know someone (I'm not going to say who - too many sue-happy people are accused here) who was using VMWare at work, and they decided to switch to virtualbox because they trusted Oracle more than Broadcom. Oracle has long has a reputation of being licensing jerks, but they are still trusted more than Boardcom.
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1. garganzol ◴[08 Sep 25 15:06 UTC] No.45169253[source]▶
Long-term VMware customer here and I am in the same boat as your friend.
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2. johncolanduoni ◴[08 Sep 25 15:53 UTC] No.45169843[source]▶
Broadcom is headquartered in Palo Alto, and their physical product lines are mostly manufactured outside China from what I can tell (Broadcom itself is fabless). Are you sure you don’t have them confused with another company?
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3. garganzol ◴[08 Sep 25 16:29 UTC] No.45170310[source]▶
Yes, sorry, my fault. It was indeed another company, I have updated the original message.