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Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

• https://github.com/bitnami/charts/issues/35164
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44608856

VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom

• https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/broadcom-sends-cease-and-desist-letters-to-subscription-less-vmware-users/
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43919429

VMware Fusion and Workstation Are Now Free for All Users

• https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2024/11/11/vmware-fusion-and-workstation-are-now-free-for-all-users/
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42111314
• https://github.com/howinfo/howinfo/wiki/Qemu#vmware-fusion-and-workstation-are-now-free-for-all-users

Order/license chaos for VMware products after Broadcom takeover

https://borncity.com/win/2024/01/13/order-license-chaos-for-vmware-products-after-broadcom-takeover-jan-2024/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38998615

https://www.thestack.technology/vmware-is-killing-off-56-products-including-vsphere-hypervisor-and-nsx/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39048120

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VMware vCenter Server

• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chinese-hackers-exploit-vmware-bug-as-zero-day-for-two-years/
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39082971

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From Tom (Thomas Hatch)

The Hacks podcast

From Tom (Thomas Hatch) and Jimmy Chunga.

https://thehacks.libsyn.com/the-shifting-landscape-of-open-source

https://thehacks.libsyn.com

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hacks/id1499408756

Saltstack

SaltStack became part VMware, and VMware became part of Broadcom.

• Automation
• Infrastructure management
• Data-driven orchestration
• Remote execution
• Configuration management
• Etc.

https://www.saltproject.io

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(software)

https://github.com/saltstack/salt

Related to server management, at some previous work, xet7 used SaltStack/Puppet/Ansible to manage servers. xet7 also sent some PR to mgmt https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/pull/370

POP

Plugin oriented programming.

https://pop.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

https://gitlab.com/vmware/pop/pop

Idem Project

Idem reduces your cloud configuration to data.

https://www.idemproject.io

https://gitlab.com/vmware/idem

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Bitnami

Bitnami has installers for software, etc.

https://bitnami.com

Bitnami has became part of VMware. Before this, xet7 participated to interview of Bitnami, and got:

• Bitnami mug
• Bitnami T-shirt
• License for Bitnami Installer to be used with WeKan https://wekan.github.io

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Pivotal Tracker (VMware) kills all non-Entreprise plans with 56 days notice

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39606205