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this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2024
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it feels like monopolies have become so common and widespread that companies are starting to forget that sometimes you can lose customers after raising prices.
Broadcom doesn't care. They exploit the lag time for very large companies to switch. In that time, they can set prices as high as they want, because the company won't go without licenses or support.
Yes, short term they will probably make a lot of money despite losing market share. But long term, it is one proprietary dependency that will be forever gone, unless open sourced.
What do they care? They can lose 1000 customers with this change before it affects them, and if they lose 1999 customers then they're still ahead.