Comment 7 for bug 1268770

So. I asked around. If anyone here is trying to use Linux in the corporate world and encountering what I encountered, here's the rundown.
Ubuntu removed this because Debian removed it.
Debian's page is here:
https://packages.qa.debian.org/v/vmware-view-open-client.html

It was apparently pulled in 2014 as unmaintained upstream, which is why it eventually got yanked from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS I guess.

Other distros *do* still build it (after all, it is open source), and there are a number of "upstreams" on github, although I guess not "official" forks thus not qualifying to resurrect the package. Unfortunately Ubuntu and Redhat are really the only officially permitted options here, and probably in other corporations.

So. That basically means that if you are in a similar situation you are going to have to:
* hope the old package keeps working until maybe Linux gets a bit more attention from VMWare, or that Debian/Ubuntu choose one of these other repos as the "official" one.
* do your own build
* switch to i386 exclusively where you can use the vmware-view i386 closed-source client

The OpenSC issue from this bug will still be a problem with either of those though, so hopefully Ubuntu eventually updates their 14.04 LTS package against the upstream fixes, or applies the patch from this bug.