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Re:The Lack of Open Tooling for FPGAs by kristoffer on Monday April 20, 2015 @01:42PM (#9409637)
A big reason why the fpga companies keep everything secret is to protect themselves against patent lawsuits (exactly as gpu companies). So once again we can see how the patent system is good for innovation....
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Re:The Lack of Open Tooling for FPGAs by diamondman on Monday April 20, 2015 @01:45PM (#9409655)
I am OP

Hmm, that is actually a good point. Might as well not draw any attention to yourself incase some ass hole has a patent on the concept of moving electrons down copper or something insane.

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