themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoVMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcomarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square142fedilinkarrow-up1641arrow-down15cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareThePantser@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 month agoExactly, if their software keeps working and allowing updates and they don’t know what the end user is doing then it’s a them problem. If they didn’t bake in telemetrics to know what version each license key is using then it’s on them.
minus-squarebluGill@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoThey probably have a good cease and desist on Broadcomm for automatically installing updates on their system against the contract.
Exactly, if their software keeps working and allowing updates and they don’t know what the end user is doing then it’s a them problem. If they didn’t bake in telemetrics to know what version each license key is using then it’s on them.
They probably have a good cease and desist on Broadcomm for automatically installing updates on their system against the contract.