They want their *own* CUDA situation. if you're doing FPGA stuff, the Xilinx hardware is good and Vivaldi is really the only way to use it. AFAIK the open-source fpga situation is pretty far behind it (please correct me if I'm wrong, I work in a place that uses Xilinx FPGAs)

> They want their *own* CUDA situation

What better way to do that than decrease availability, I ask, both rhetorically and sarcastically. CUDA-proper did well, at least partially, because it was put in front of everyone. This is going for an exclusivity angle that doesn't make much sense for ecosystem development, IMO.

I suspect this goes to show how much influence/priority B2B carries, my point is it's a mistake they've made before. The maintenance costs I believe they're trying to remove would, IMO, pay dividends.