When AMD bought Xilinx I was hoping they'd open up the software side like they (eventually) did with their GPU drivers. Looks like that isn't happening anytime soon.

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

But you just showed you have deep pockets and they think they can get you to open it again every year for the rest of time.

Xilinx was never positioned that it made sense for them to open it up. If/when it gets run into the ground by AMD short sightedness they might just open it to claim that was the plan all along...