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Who Xilinx choose to set their lawyers on is up to Xilinx. They promised to clam down and update their policies after the education video takedown blew up in t
by Crosseye_Jack 7y ago
Who Xilinx choose to set their lawyers on is up to Xilinx.
They promised to clam down and update their policies after the education video takedown blew up in their face back in January, but they have yet to do update their policies so as far as I can see from their legal page (which is where they said they would post the updated policy).
As the saying goes. Once bitten, twice shy.
- bb88 7y agoI think you have an excellent point. Why bother with a company if they sick their lawyers on hobbyists and experimenters? With CPU's the modern software engineer expects a new GCC/LLVM target, so we can have a consistent experience with one code base. I get that. I believe the market is shifting under the FPGA's faster than they realize. Sure they're going to have large corporate customers for a while using the xilinx proprietary IP cores, etc. But someone at some company is going to get a bonus for saving the company tons of money by modifying an open source core, so they can drop the cost of using the xilinx proprietary cores.