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[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] white_nrdy@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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"

[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week 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.