• neclimdul@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    For your specific question: Why is Linux not supported in the BASIC tier?

    This is AMD’s marketing decision.

    Kind Regards, Anatoli Curran, Xilinx/AMD Forum Moderator

    Translation, we looked at the books and thought this could make us more money.

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      1 day ago

      I honestly think this is it, and it’s not arbitrary. I think it’s because really any build server will be running Linux (either natively or via Docker). AMD/Xilinx probably thinks “Build Servers are an advanced use case, so not covered under the free license”

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        23 hours ago

        I don’t know the exact reason but yeah. “Marketing” departments don’t get to just make fundamental product decisions in any company I’ve ever interacted with.