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kraquepype | 2 years ago

Agreed, but it was indispensable when I was learning VMWare over a decade ago for work. Having a free version I could tinker with at home was very useful.

This is just going to kill whatever hobbyist user base they did have, and make it harder to learn the platform.

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misswaterfairy|2 years ago

And cost VMWare any 'soft influence' they had.

People tinker with free stuff in their own time a lot. Some of those people would have sway in what products a business purchases in future, like virtualisation software for example.

People go with what they know.

Already__Taken|2 years ago

it's already costing them, dropped 40k on servers and avoided them like the plague.