Without a doubt the case. Pretty much all of the major vendors require a license agreement, and a node lock to a specific MAC for your computer. They generall

Without a doubt the case. Pretty much all of the major vendors require a license agreement, and a node lock to a specific MAC for your computer. They generally do hobble to toolchain a little bit as far as the number of LUTs you compile to. Top tier, huge AMD/Intel chipsets are gonna require you to shell out to use all the LUTs and specialized IP blocks.