VMware: OK, we've heard you. We'll do something about our violations...
Summary: Finally, albeit belatedly, VMware responds to its illegal behaviour (without actually tackling that behaviour, just cheap and rather shallow tokens of ethics or "corporate responsibility")
For those of us who turned down those propositions there was a struggle; we needed to justify not having skinnerboxes or "social" accounts in some site run by a private company
In a lot of ways, so-called 'Vibe Coding' is already considered vapourware or a passing fad promoted in the media by managers who try to justify mass layoffs, especially ridding companies of "very expensive" software engineers
"No matter how much financial hocus-pocus they use to reclassify revenues to land in the "sexy" buckets (AI, Quantum), it still smells old and musty - just like this company."