Good points. Though I'd say that at least Altera provides good support for most of their devices in the Web Edition. Also Altera and Xilinx (I think) provides

Good points. Though I'd say that at least Altera provides good support for most of their devices in the Web Edition. Also Altera and Xilinx (I think) provides a free version of Mentor Graphics simulation tool ModelSim that supports up to moderate size designs.