I already have. I was a perfectly happy VMware customer until Broadcom took over and fucked it all up. I still don’t have a license allocation for a product I paid for. Will never buy VMware/Broadcom again.

ETA: the context, for those who care, is VMware Workstation. VMware made that free for personal use right before the takeover, so Broadcom didn’t bother porting over the license database. If you have a pro/commercial key, make sure you back it up because Broadcom won’t help you recover it.

But if VMware is now free, why does this matter? Because the key words were “personal use.” They reserve the right to pull an oracle and hit your organization up with an audit and massive fees for that one guy that installed VMware workstation that one time.

We bought keys, but now Broadcom has no record of that. I’ve since switched all our virtualization scripts to use docker.