My team is worried about that too. We've been a java and spring shop for years. We're looking at micronaut, it's similar enough.

When I had someone from another team take a look at broadcom and what they could do to spring, they said the licenses are permissive, it will be fine. Likely not that simple.

My guess will be:

- Shorter support windows, with longer support available for purchase (VMWare actually introduced this, but Broadcom can weaponize it)

- Then Enterprise Spring, which has additional features

- Then some other license shenaningans.

Hazelcast recently made the move where CVE security updates are only released into the OSS ecosystem quarterly - whereas the enterprise model gets them as soon as they're ready. In OSS, you have to rebuild and patch yourself.

That's a special kind of evil, which has Broadcom DNA all over it.