You need to remember this isn't Broadcom the chip company at work, this is really Avago which took on the Broadcom name when they acquired the latter.

Avago's business model is to acquire cash cow businesses and then milk them dry. These VMware changes are consistent with that model.

> […] this is really Avago which took on the Broadcom name when they acquired the latter.

For a visual representation of this see the "Edgar suit" from the movie Men in Black. :)