From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 12/4/2024 8:20 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:   
   > On a more serious note, does anyone else think Broadcom are showing absolute   
   > contempt towards their users ?   
      
   I am expecting companies to attempt to maximize profit.   
      
   That expectation tend to minimize disappointment.  :-)   
      
   Question is of course whether Broadcom is maximizing profit!   
      
   The pricing strategy seems to be to cash in now and not worry about   
   long term as opposed to try and setup a long term steady income.   
      
   Given the move to containers and cloud then I actually think that it may   
   be a profit maximizing strategy. With a shrinking market then the value   
   of long term is not so big.   
      
   But that raises another question: why did they pay so much? The price   
   hikes may be profit maximizing, but it will not bring in what they paid   
   for VMWare.   
      
     It reminds me of the person who took over   
   > supply of a vital medical drug in the US a few years ago and promptly   
   > increased the price massively because the users of the drug where a capture   
   > market that _needed_ to buy the drug.   
      
   This guy:   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Shkreli   
      
   ?   
      
   Arne   
      
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