Personnel are not needed – 10. Articles are also not needed. More water is needed in corporate blogs
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If they had gone to lawyers, they could have noticed that, starting from March 5, 2022, installing any updates on any vmware by broadcom product may fall under the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation – Article 146. Violation of copyright and related rights, and immediately under paragraph 3.
But it may not hit the target.
Was there any instruction from the Ministry of Digital Development, or a law, or a court decision – and, given the peculiarities of the Russian judicial system – an explanation from no less than the Supreme Court about the licensing procedure and the applicability of Article 146 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation? I don’t remember.
And in the corporate blog there is nothing, except that sometimes someone from us .
Another legal conflict
On April 15, 2024, a note was published A changing market landscape requires constant evolution: our mission for VMware customerswhere I consider the most important quote:
It is important to emphasize that nothing about the transition to subscription pricing affects our customers' ability to use their existing perpetual licenses. Customers have the right to continue to use older vSphere versions they have previously licensed, and they can continue to receive maintenance and support by signing up for one of our subscription offerings.
To ensure that customers whose maintenance and support contracts have expired and choose to not continue on one of our subscription offerings are able to use perpetual licenses in a safe and secure fashion, we are announcing free access to zero-day security patches for supported versions of vSphereand we'll add other VMware products over time.
How this is compatible with the civil law of the Russian Federation is not clear to me. Perhaps the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation could clarify this at the request of the Ministry of Digital Development, but. But Order of the Ministry of Digital Development No. 712 dated September 26, 2022 – never became an addition to Federal Law No. 31 of 26.02.1997, so what kind of private law is this?
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