I'm honestly glad he got slapped with such a huge bill. Maybe it will prompt other corporations to start putting real money into the open source projects all their billion dollar businesses are built off of.

VMware is owned by broadcom now so...

We rent our servers from Ionos and price hike came as a complete surprise. Luckily Ionos took some of the increase on themselves, but had I been ready with different provider I'd switch in a blink. It seems price hike was a surprise to Ionos as well and am sure as hell hoping they are working on adding another hypervisor.