You're talking about FPGA tools but this thread is about VLSI design where the major EDA vendors (Synopsys, Cadence, and Mentor) don't sell hardware(*) and *do* make a lot of money from software.
(*) Excluding emulators or simulation accelerators.
(*) Excluding emulators or simulation accelerators.
did you miss the part where the comment i'm responding to is about VTR?