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AMD Pulls a Bait-and-Switch on Linux Users with Vivado Licensing Changes (itsfoss.com)

submitted 5 days ago by cm0002@lemy.lol to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 days ago

But then why is it still free on Windows? Remove the basic tier entirely, then.

Especially if you're correct that is a server/client system, then someone will just soon up a Docker container that has all of Windows 11 LTE and the Windows version of this pre-configured, so people can continue to use it in Linux anyway, or switch to an open-source alternative. They're already supporting and releasing Linux builds, so this doesn't seem to gain them anything and, instead, may cost them marketshare and goodwill.

I'm confused.