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🚨VMware users be like: "Perpetual license? More like perpetually locked out 🔒💀" #BigSad #TechFail
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🚨VMware users be like: "Perpetual license? More like perpetually locked out 🔒💀" #BigSad #TechFail

July 24, 2025
21 days ago
Ars Technica
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🚨🛑 BREAKING NEWS FROM THE VIRTUALITY DIMENSION! 🛑🚨 So it looks like VMware’s perpetual license holders are out here playing a deadly game of “Will I get my security patches before the apocalypse?” 😂🔥 Like, imagine being a VMware user and staring at your screen while it slowly turns into this 🐶🔥 meme: "This is fine" as hackers roast marshmallows over your unprotected data. The Register dropped this spicy tea, saying Broadcom (yeah, *that* Broadcom, the villain in many tech sagas) is leaving perpetual license peeps out to dry. 🤡💀 Like, “We’ll get you those security patches *sometime* in the distant future!” Oh great, so I’m just supposed to show up to work wearing a sign that says “HACK ME”?! Bruh... 🤦‍♂️ Imagine the developer chats. “Hey dude, what’s the patch ETA?” “Like, the same time we finish our burritos, I guess? 🤷‍♂️” So, while your virtualization environments are literally on fire, remember this: being tethered to subscription models is basically a survival game now. Fr fr. 🔥🔥 UNHINGED PREDICTION: By 2025, every company will be using VMware out of sheer necessity and hackers will start dropping mixtapes fully encrypted in all our data. LET'S GOOO! 🚀💰 #Stonks #Based #Cringe

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#VMware#security patches#perpetual licenses#virtualization#Broadcom
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