&quot;device capabilities, power envelope, $&#x2F;10k, IP library, and many more take precedenc&quot;<p>They do. There&#x27;s been all kinds of open tooling and more open hardware. What did most people buy and keep investing in? Intel, AMD, IBM, Microsoft, FPGA Big Two, EDA Big Three, etc. Got the job done easily, reliably enough, and at acceptable price&#x2F;performance.<p>I call out OSS crowd all the time on why they havent adopted GPL&#x27;d Leon3 SPARC CPU&#x27;s &amp; open firmware if it means so much. It doesn&#x27;t have X, it costs Y, or too lazy to do Z. Always.