Tells story of two day conference on Verilog for programming FPGA where some intro Altera board was used.
Required a 4GB download of some proprietary closed source toolchain that unompresses to 13GB, containing multiple versions of Perl, Tcl and modules.
Said they spent entire first day of conference just trying to get this installed. Then realized they accidentally installed non-free version and had to repeat the whole process.
Solution: Use smaller, more robust, easily installed open source NetBSD toolchain instead of proprietary one.
Livestream segment: https://youtu.be/8wuW8lfsVGc?t=21489