Comment by Aurornis

There’s a lot of misinformation in this thread from people who didn’t know about Vivado until this controversy.

> But instead, they are making it a paid benefit. It can only mean that their Linux user base is growing, ie. more commercial operators are turning to Linux.

Vivado has always been primarily a paid product, including on Linux. The free tier has been a limited version useful for small projects or as a trial, which can support a limited set of FPGAs. The paid tier licenses have price tags in the thousands.

They aren’t making new paid products for a growing user base. They are continuing to support their paid Linux user base.