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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

(skyfall.dev)
1502 points JustSkyfall | 5 comments | 18 Sep 25 01:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.014s | source
1. rollulus ◴[18 Sep 25 05:58 UTC] No.45285973[source]▶
“Pay 50k$ within a week or we’ll delete your data”. Ransomware gangs are even friendlier than this.
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2. irfn ◴[18 Sep 25 06:03 UTC] No.45286005[source]▶
Indeed, I have seen Ransomware threats with 3 to 4 weeks timelines.
3. KingOfCoders ◴[18 Sep 25 06:07 UTC] No.45286036[source]▶
A large software company raised our license costs from $80.000/y to $800.000 one-time payment and threatened to essentially shutdown our company. If you have no plan-B for your essentially technology, it's on you.
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4. pxeboot ◴[18 Sep 25 06:09 UTC] No.45286055[source]▶
VMware? At least everybody saw that coming the second the Broadcom merger was announced.
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5. KingOfCoders ◴[18 Sep 25 10:53 UTC] No.45288081{3}[source]▶
No. Also VMWare moved perpetual licenses to subscriptions, not the other way around.