Indeed, I have seen Ransomware threats with 3 to 4 weeks timelines.

A large software company raised our license costs from $80.000/y to $800.000 one-time payment and threatened to essentially shutdown our company. If you have no plan-B for your essentially technology, it's on you.

VMware? At least everybody saw that coming the second the Broadcom merger was announced.

No. Also VMWare moved perpetual licenses to subscriptions, not the other way around.

Proton did this without warning with their upgrade coupons back in day. Still salty.