It is absurd that in 2026 you have to pay for such tools. It feels like buying a propietary compiler in 80's or 90's.

No one wants that anymore.

If it’s any consolation, it wasn’t and still isn’t available on macOS. Also the part about Linux having a “small user base” made me chuckle.

That’s the opposite of what I’m observing. If they wanted to save costs, they would have dropped Linux support altogether. 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. Still, there are much better ways to handle this without alienating your user base.

https://www.zeroasic.com/platypus https://www.zeroasic.com/projects/wildebeest https://www.zeroasic.com/projects/logik

Of course we don't have silicon yet...so nobody here cares. I think a lot of people forget that Xilinx spent $10B+ develop their awesome devices. I figure we can do it with 1/10th of that.;-)

"AMD never misses a chance to miss a chance."

In this case, the chance to trash its reputation with customers.

AMD, you can make more money selling chips than software, but take away the entry level software and you eliminate the on-ramp. I’m not buying a license to prototype.

I wonder how many Linux GPU sales their decision to penalize Linux on their FPGA line will cost them.

Second: Can this software be run from Wine on Linux?

These tools do need attention, it's too bad there's not a better model than subscription bases like these.

Pretty sure, based on TCL base, that these tools were native Unix at some point, so the no-linux-free-beer vs windows-free-beer version are hilarious...

Ultimately one has, with so many vendor tools, a windows box somewhere so make it a remote compile machine.

Okay, but what if you run a company whose business model no longer supports giving away free stuff? How can you transition? What would users consider less outrageous?

Don't upgrade. It's just that simple.

Do they offer some unique features in the new version or is it a habit to upgrade everything every day?

It seems silly to put up SW barriers for people to use your fairly expensive HW, but what do I know.

Link to my comment, so that I don't repeat myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256417

This is an absolute foot-gun moment. And the gaslighting PR responses are just unacceptable. I'm very disappointed in them.

Eventually the empire will strike back though.

I now marked AMD as a company that can not be trusted.

We need more indie companies in general, and cheap 3d printing for the masses. It'll be a long way to go to nanoscale perfection, but we'll have to go it - AMD but also Intel before, showed that NONE of those mega-greedy corporations can be trusted. They'll always try to do a switcheroo move. But as I stated here: the empire will strike back eventually. The Barbara Streisand effect is real.

Also this site (itsfoss.com) is unusable and riddled with hundreds of ads and sets my machines fans to full blast.

At least use another credible source or go to the source instead as per the HN guidelines.

Quote: 'The only source I can give at this time is "trust me bro"'

(of course that's the bean counter calculation without factoring in "karma")

And I kinda agree, the cost of supporting those tools on different platforms is not great

Honestly just run Wine

Imagine if the whole industry made interoperable tools that worked on open data formats and competed on merit instead of customer lock-in.

Imagine the world we could have.

It's likely a case where maintaining separate builds for the free and commercial tiers was getting complex. Often times, this kind of software requires lots of manual reviewing and adding or removing modules, and they probably decided it's just not worth it.