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Honestly, why is that a problem for a hobbyist? As long as it is not paid tooling, something being or not being open-source is mostly personal preference. I'm n
by sebazzz 2y ago
Honestly, why is that a problem for a hobbyist? As long as it is not paid tooling, something being or not being open-source is mostly personal preference. I'm not interested in the source code of the Arduino compiler.
- RossBencina 2y agoA concrete and relevant example: nandland's preferred target is a Lattice ice40 using Lattice's free-for-hobbyists closed-source "icecube" toolchain (yosys opensource doesn't support VHDL). Recently Lattice started charging hundreds of dollars/year for icecube and it was only because of community pushback that Lattice reintroduced a no-charge hobbyist tier. Had Lattice not renegged it would have been a significant detriment to hobby users who "didn't care that icecube sourcecode was unavailable".