I wrote a second, much more standard Verilog compiler (because by then there was a standard) with the intent of essentially selling cloud simulation time (being

I wrote a second, much more standard Verilog compiler (because by then there was a standard) with the intent of essentially selling cloud simulation time (being 3rd to a marketplace means you have to innovate) - sadly I was a bit ahead of my time ('cloud' was not yet a word) the whole California/Enron "smartest guys in the room" debacle kind of made a self financed startup like that non-viable So in the end I open sourced the compiler ('vcomp') but it didn't take off