alt Hacker NewsLarge company again makes local decision without considering the effects outside that single product line.
I wonder how many Linux GPU sales their decision to penalize Linux on their FPGA line will cost them.
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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.
I mean, over the years, I have purchased (or advised other people to purchase) multiple Nvidia GPUs for compute workloads.
And the reason pretty much always came down to good integration between various open source software and proprietary CUDA drivers. And the assumption is that this support will continue for many years.
So, yeah, burning their existing FPGA users is a strong signal never to invest real money in their GPUs for compute workloads.
>I wonder how many Linux GPU sales their decision to penalize Linux on their FPGA line will cost them.
Not many I would guess.
> I wonder how many Linux GPU sales their decision to penalize Linux on their FPGA line will cost them
Honestly? I bet the number is in the hundreds of units total.
Most people do not care that a software package they don’t use and possibly never heard of before today no longer has a free tier on Linux.