Even as Broadcom-owned VMWare makes more products free for commercial use, some customers have complained about price hikes and its current subscription push.

After bundling VMware products into pricey subscriptions, Broadcom is now offering VMware Fusion and Workstation for free.

Early this year, VMware announced that Workstation was free for personal use. I was very excited about it and I wrote a few articles about it. Then, this week, VMware doubled down with this announcement and made it free for commercial use as well.

Despite severe price hikes to the broader VMWare portfolio, which many companies say are akin to 'being held for ransom,' Broadcom announced today that its two WorkStation Pro and Fusion Pro editions of its VMWare WorkStation Player software would also ...

VMware is now free, and the paid versions are no longer available. That doesn't mean any of their functionalities will disappear.

VMware desktop products Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro used to be free for end users only, but now this applies to all users. Support will stop soon.

And yes, that does include commercial use in production Broadcom has made its desktop hypervisors freeware – even for production use. Not open source, but free stuff is still good, right?… Broadcom's announcement may be bad news for Oracle’s VirtualBox desktop hypervisor,