Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts

Re:Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts by heisenbit on Friday July 18, 2025 @05:27PM (#44610028)

One does not need VMware for SpringBoot so?

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Re:Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts by TYMorningCoffee on Friday July 18, 2025 @05:35PM (#44610088)

VMware owns Spring Boot https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Boot

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Re:Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts by xienze on Friday July 18, 2025 @05:34PM (#44610087)

Spring’s corporate steward is VMWare, and Broadcom bought VMWare, ergo Spring is subject to Broadcom’s whims.

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Re:Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts by loloquwowndueo on Friday July 18, 2025 @05:35PM (#44610090)

Not spring boot, but spring, is owned by VMware. Sure spring is under a free license but if upstream enshittifies, community forks would be required.

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Re:Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts by mindcrime on Friday July 18, 2025 @07:36PM (#44611037)

And as popular and widely used as Spring is, that would 100% happen. To me at least, I wouldn't count this as a particularly huge risk. But in an enterprise setting, with mandatory auditing and stuff, I can understand why there would be a requirement to at least pre-identify alternative(s).

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Re:Broadcom to discontinue free Bitnami Helm charts by terminalbraid on Saturday July 19, 2025 @07:35AM (#44614624)

> Not spring boot, but spring, is owned by VMware

How do I reconcile this statement with VMWare holding the copyright which you will find unambiguously littered in the official Spring Boot repository?

Since you contend the contrary, who does in fact hold the copyright?

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