Hardware designs for FPGAs can be shared with other FPGA designers
and enthusiasts.
There is no requirement for mass production.
Following your reasoning, there would be no point in Linus Torvalds
writing Linux. If he had anything to contribute to OS design, he
should have gotten a job at Microsoft or Sun or Apple or wherever.
(Well, arguably he didn't contribute anything new to OS design...
but why would you discourage him from trying to write Linux in the
first place??)
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These slides http://www.fastsoft.com/downloads/Optimizing_TCP_P rotocols.ppt refer to TCP FAST as a faster version of Vegas.
The point is to learn and have fun.
Hardware designs for FPGAs can be shared with other FPGA designers and enthusiasts. There is no requirement for mass production.
Following your reasoning, there would be no point in Linus Torvalds writing Linux. If he had anything to contribute to OS design, he should have gotten a job at Microsoft or Sun or Apple or wherever. (Well, arguably he didn't contribute anything new to OS design... but why would you discourage him from trying to write Linux in the first place??)