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Re: Open Source Code
I think there is a place for teams with good development practices, who are building reusable libraries, etc., to publically distrubute their work. Both for educational and time saving reasons.
However, in general I do not believe most teams have any reason to distribute their code. Most FRC teams' code is of horrible quality, and has little to no chance of reuse/modifcation by anyone other than the author. There is no reason for this type of code to be distributed.
There is also the issue of looseing competitive advantage when posting innovative code during the build season. FRC is a competition, so this is a concern, but my guess is that 99+% of teams don't have any interesting intellectual property in their code.
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Eric Haskins KC9JVH
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