Note that if a worker fails to get to minimum wage through tips, they are owed minimum wage by the employer.
However, minimum wage is pretty crap.
Your point stands that compensation should be baked in of course, it is just that normal minimum wage does kick in if the tips fail.
They probably could every VM as a "server", and people get crazy about lots of virtual machines.
In this case, that are pissed because they already spent the money. Further I'm sure they started the VMware path likely over 15 years ago, and frankly the alternatives weren't great back then and VMware wasn't as crazy unreasonable.
One could think it's not great that they are going Microsoft for virtualization after being bitten, but I'm positive their infrastructure is Windows based and so for them, it makes sense. I can't imagine that being the desired choice personally, but here we are.
They failed to transition from technology leader to commodity product.
Well, Broadcom clearly saw that VMware was on the trajectory to be supplanted by either cloud aligned virtualization solutions or built in operating system virtualization. They failed to really carve out another niche because even in the most dedicated VMware shop, all the advances happened in operating systems by other vendors.
So Broadcom decided explicitly to gouge the hell out of customers too afraid to migrate losing any chance at new customers (which they probably weren't going to get any way) and scaring away current customers (I recall some report they felt they could alienate 90% of their customers and still be happy with how hard they were gouging the remaining 10%).
In short, going exactly according to plan.
Problem being is that I don't see us rewarding good leadership, so much as rewarding having a huge ego and being a sociopath.
Generally the most well rewarded executives I've dealt with provided no actionable leadership, but claimed they were amazing leaders while tossing out useless pointy haired boss fodder. Last week was in a meeting where someone was stating plainly what we needed to do about something and the executive cuts him off mid sentence to say "we need to figure out what we need to do and then do it". Yes, we were in the middle of that but he needed to interject to claim that it was his idea. He cut off another team describing what they did and he said "why didn't you just use ai? It would be done already and you wouldn't need the people working on it". Note this was a very very AI heavy team already, because he had already mandated it and he thinks they are lying because things aren't magically happening.
I've occasionally seen good leadership, With actionable awareness of the customer and work and ability to keep things on track and not fall into the trap of just spewing business jargon. Usually they get undermined by some incompetent who sees them as a threat and the upper tier is infested by people who deal with the hollow jargon and thus will tend to believe a fellow jargon speaker. So they get sidelined or quit.
And those people want to spend $500 on a handheld device?
That's one thing that's been striking about the executive AI cheerleading, they keep coming up with simply the worst scenarios thinking they are describing something good.
It's like they are all out of touch sociopaths that can't understand normal human experience or something...
Indeed, there's a reason we have all sorts of ducting, we want the air to flow specific ways. Not so great when hot air could easily recirculate immediately back to intake.
For example, Microsoft copilot has a monthly price with a token quota and a company can choose to just make it stop working when the quota is hit.
I think I recall other plans having at least the option of token quotas, because most companies don't want to give employees a blank check for anything. I also believe that generally the token bill is on top of a fixed monthly cost too.
For a consumer service, absolutely. That's too much money for a household to ignore and they are actually paying attention.
For a business user? Quite possible. My company bought subscription to one of the providers for every single employee, no matter the role. A large number don't use it at all (if they do anything, it's using a chat that's either free or included with something else), and most of the rest use it lightly. We have only a handful of folks trying to use it as much as possible. Companies frequently just buy for everyone instead of micromanaging who needs or doesn't need a service.
Points for a non-AI fix.
Already noticed that the "AI" flag is nearly worthless.
There a channel I watch regularly that has used a synthetized voice forever, and despite praying the AI that is controversial, it is flagged.
Then noticed a family member watching an AI song and not flagged as AI at all.