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Re:The Lack of Open Tooling for FPGAs by aswanson on Monday April 20, 2015 @05:52PM (#9411090)
Posts like this make me happy I didn't get that "dream" job from Altera back in the day and got pulled into software. Closed tools, expensive proprietary equipment to get started, hostage to large vendors. I dodged a career bullet.
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Re:The Lack of Open Tooling for FPGAs by diamondman on Monday April 20, 2015 @06:44PM (#9411301)
Those jobs also pay you to sell your ideas that you are never allowed to use again unless you continue working for the company you sold it to. And if you have the gall to use your own idea, lawyers!
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Re:The Lack of Open Tooling for FPGAs by aswanson on Monday April 20, 2015 @07:07PM (#9411374)
Wow. The beatings just continue. I was headed straight into the worse engineering subfield for starting a company, economically as well as legally.
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