A concrete and relevant example: nandland's preferred target is a Lattice ice40 using Lattice's free-for-hobbyists closed-source "icecube" toolchain (yosys open

A 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".