Broadcom "preventing some vendors from selling products to us," AT&T alleges.

Broadcom “preventing some vendors from selling products to us,” AT&T alleges.

  • Possibly linuxEnglish
    4•4 months ago

    Broadcom is not playing the long game. They will milk VMware and then dump it or dissolve the company.

    Funny enough Broadcom is not doing so well right now (check there stock)

    • Laurel RavenEnglish
      3•4 months ago

      This sort of buy-fatten-milk-kill acquisition should just be flat out illegal

      • Possibly linuxEnglish
        1•4 months ago

        I don’t really see a problem with it. It painful short term but has the benefit of breaking up centralization and single points of failure.

        • Laurel RavenEnglish
          1•4 months ago

          I’m not sure I follow your logic there, it looks to me like it has the opposite long term effect by removing what competition actually is there

          • Possibly linuxEnglish
            1•4 months ago

            Well no. VMware had a monopoly but now they have successfully pushed everyone to other software. Not everyone is using the same alternative so the market is more diverse.