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>At least Microsoft, Google, Apple etc. do not demand (yet) hundreds of thousands of $ per year for a single license. Because they sell ads and monetize their
by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>At least Microsoft, Google, Apple etc. do not demand (yet) hundreds of thousands of $ per year for a single license.
Because they sell ads and monetize their users instead, which is a pipe of infinite money.
Why does it matter to you how much they're charging? It's not communism. It's their honest labor and they're allowed to charge as much as they want for it, same how you're allowed to ask for as much money as you want for your salary negotiations.
So please excuse traditional engineering companies for trying to make a living by monetizing their hard earned IP like every single company out there, and not selling ads like big-tech.
The world still needs traditional engineering companies to exist to progress, we can't have a society where everyone only works by selling ads to one another.
If you feel like they're price gouging, then feel free to write your own EDA tools and sell them for cheap, I'm sure the market is open to paying much less and saving some money.
- adrian_b 3y agoLike I have already said, there is no shortage of people who could write better EDA tools, but none of them can obtain the information needed to make them compatible with e.g. TSMC, despite the fact that one would think that it is in the interest of a foundry to provide the information that would be needed to enable the appearance of new customers. However most foundries, like too many other businesses today, are not interested in new customers, unless they already are very big companies, which is one of the factors that has resulted in the extraordinary reduction in the number of companies that compete in every field, in comparison with the situation from a couple of decades ago.