Starting November 11, 2024 both desktop hypervisor products VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion will be available for free to everyone—commercial, educational, and personal users alike. This was announced in this VMware blog article.
VMware Workstation is the desktop hypervisor for Windows and Linux. VMware Fusion is its counterpart for MacOS.
To download these products for free you do need to create an account at the Broadcom Support website. After registering both products can be downloaded from the software section, here is a direct link (that only works after login to the support portal).