The number of corporate IT departments got caught when VMWare licencing shifted from Dell EMC to Broadcom https://www.techradar.com/pro/broadcom-has-allegedly-hiked-v...
My international enterprise and all our business partners moved every broadcom product we have to a competitor. On top of that, they were very aggressive and combative with their sales+cease and desist threats.
They earned enemies for life. Some of us care about business relationships. Broadcom is dead to me and anyone that will listen to me.
That's the thing: Broadcom don't. Care, bother, whatever. You are not even a blip.