> I would attribute the weird FPGA dev attitudes to Stockholm syndrome. I always get the most mind boggling replies in defense of the evil vendors when I criticize FPGA’s embarrassingly small amount of freedom.
I'm not sure you understand FPGA development. Until FPGA manufacturers do something like software vendors where they bundle actual malware with the closed-source hardware they sell, it doesn't really bother me.
Personally, I kind of prefer having detailed documentation of a black box rather than trying to read source code. The latter is all too common in software development.
I have multiple FPGA designs in use today. What does or doesn’t bother you is irrelevant.
I don’t really care to explain the obvious net win that open source designs (and tools) are for society. The only argument I’d consider reasonable is that the FPGA/hardware world is too small to justify the initial investment.
I'm not sure you understand FPGA development. Until FPGA manufacturers do something like software vendors where they bundle actual malware with the closed-source hardware they sell, it doesn't really bother me.
Personally, I kind of prefer having detailed documentation of a black box rather than trying to read source code. The latter is all too common in software development.