Soon we will have reached the point where software piracy is the only way not to build your company on digital quicksand. I sincerely hope we never get there because it would ruin the commercial software market, which did produce amazing tools in the past. But by now, it certainly looks like major participants are boosting their last remaining quarters (before the company implodes) by scorching the earth they walk on. First Unity, now VMWare. I really have no idea why a CEO might think it to be a good long-term strategy to throw the majority of your past customers under a bus.