Daemon Spawn at that.

we need to regulate speech then, exactly the same way we want to regulate firearms.

Only those authorized by the state ought to have speech. Safety First!

(this is largely sarcastic in nature)

1.) VMware had (and still has) a lot of goodies on vSphere that were (and some still) are not on competing products. If your Virtualization strategy depended on any of these, migrating is hard.

2.) Take point #1 and multiply by 20x if you have (private/public/hybrid) cloud foundation.

3.) If you were a single-virtualization or single-(private)cloud vendor based shop, you probably want to migrate to a multivendor stack as part of THIS migration, so that, if one of your new vendors goes rogue (just like VMware/broadcom did) you are not trapped again. This complicates even more the migrations, as, you will need to handle a multivendor environmet, and more so, for a while you will have to juggle 3 vendors (WMware + the other 2)

4.) For ages VMware was a model citizen, which means everyone certified agaist them. Before the migration you need to make sure all your workloads are certified. This is 4x valid for purposes of regulation, certification, compliance, and (cyber) insurance

Is a very complex issue, for many an organization is not as simple as "I migrated the VMs in my homelab in an afternon so how hard can it be?". And the timelines are heavily compressed.

The bigger you are, the harder it is to turn the ship in an emergency. See Titanic.

At some point the inertia of change isn't worth it, as you suggested. It is possible, but is it worth it?

The last way to look at this is a way to start the process of diversifying our Tech holdings. Windows, Office, Adobe, VMWare etc. But here is my take, STEAM is showing the way out. We're not there yet, but the tide appears to be turning (to keep the nautical terms going).

Broken clocks are still broken, even when they occasionally tell the time correctly.

And tell me it does not sond like Meta Muse AI

Then, there is an AI specialized on Law, is called Harvey, Like Harvey Dent the district attorney - Two face, from Batman

Who is naming these things?

Yeah, I've become the old greybeard I used to make fun of. The Tech version of a hero living long enough to become the villain.

Now, get off my lawn! ;-)

"We at Siemens have seen how successful SCO was, and think we can be just as successful!"

I know a guy, friend of my father. He alone, an immigrant from Soviet Russia, is the best story on why this never works. He had a very high level job in the USSR- Chief Aerospace engineer, with a chauffeur and a dacha. He managed to use his money in Russia to essentially bribe a legal immigration out of the USSR to the US.

Started over as an elevator operator in NYC. Eventually became a chief engineer again. The stories he told about the USSR leaves no doubt as to how much of a failure Marxism is.

I can think of one delicious item, and that item is a fried apple pie, available only in the US in Hawaii and ONE single McDonalds in Downey California. But not $5.

Time to start randomly ordering massive fake amounts of hamburgers, driving up the price, then bankrupting individual franchises for being so stupid.

Noooooo

You don't see how?

That's why.

It's because its not the same.

I don't understand why Democrats want to stop idiots from losing their money, except as some sort of "gotcha" law passed by Newsom. Who exactly are they trying to protect? And more importantly, why?

OR

You're a son of a president, selling "Art".