Comment by Jean-Papoulos
5 hours ago
Very few, entreprise users (aka volume) will pay the license, hobbyists will pirate it if need be. AMD doesn't want to do support for the hobbyists for free, that's all.
5 hours ago
Very few, entreprise users (aka volume) will pay the license, hobbyists will pirate it if need be. AMD doesn't want to do support for the hobbyists for free, that's all.
No, AMD wants to collect some rent from people running Vivado in CI/CD environments.
Understandable. But would it be much easier to release it without promise to support. That everyone would just accept.