On: AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes

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> The actual problem with winmodems was them breaking the established software/hardware boundary, and the Linux community not having the resources to follow suit.

I think you misspelled "winmodems were completely proprietary and prevented Linux community from writing their own drivers for the hardware".

Winmodems were the beginning of the era of "you cannot be allowed to use the hardware".

(As a technical solution, SDR makes perfect sense. The obstacle isn't technical.)

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Nothing about a winmodem prevented you writing a Linux driver. The problem is that nobody did write one.

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Details of the hardware were kept proprietary.

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Details of most hardware are kept proprietary.

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A lot of hardware that has had Linux drivers written for it is specced openly in this style: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents...

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And a lot of it isn't.