VMWare makes its Fusion and Workstation Editions free to all users and slowly winds down Active Support functions.

VMware made its Fusion and Workstation software that creates and manages virtual machines free for personal use earlier this year. Now, the company announced that as of Monday, it’s free for everyone,

After bundling VMware products into pricey subscriptions, Broadcom is now offering VMware Fusion and Workstation for free.

And yes, that does include commercial use in production Broadcom has made its desktop hypervisors freeware – even for production use. Not open source, but free stuff is still good, right?… Broadcom's announcement may be bad news for Oracle’s VirtualBox desktop hypervisor,

VMware desktop products Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro used to be free for end users only, but now this applies to all users. Support will stop soon.

VMware is now free, and the paid versions are no longer available. That doesn't mean any of their functionalities will disappear.