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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
As for the individual who caused interference on Einstein... It's all been said at this point. The individual has been punished, and there isn't really anything else we can do about it. Part of Gracious Professionalism is not pointing fingers. When we find bugs at work, we don't ask "who wrote that section of code?" We ask "Who is the best, most knowledgeable person to work on fixing this bug?" As a community, lets move past the actions of the individual and show our support for the job FIRST has done.
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Do people at your job purposely hide bugs in other peoples code to get their rivals fired? I work as a software engineer too and take the exact same approach to bugs (they are unintentional mistakes after all). That analogy does not work at all here.
Look, there is more to this story. We actually do know exactly who did this and we know more about their motive than you'd think. No it wasn't curiousity or accidental. We had eye-witnesses to some suspicious behavior right on Einstein. We took pictures of the person. We told the FTA right on the spot. We even told our opponent 1114. We didn't put the whole puzzle together until New Hampshire (i.e. we didn't fully understand what we were seeing at the time) but now we know exactly what happened and who did it. This person was cheating plain and simple. It was definitely not a scouting app. Right now if we just wanted to crucify the team we could. That is not the purpose of us asking them to come forward.
Here is the reason we ask: We've already seen other specific teams mentioned and considered as potentially involved. I've also seen people minimizing what happened and even some saying FIRST didn't really figure anything out! Go ahead, how many of you have a suspect in mind! This is not a good situation to leave this community in. I honestly believed the team would have come forward by now to bring closure to this. It makes me extremely upset that they haven't because by their secrecy it damages the other teams that were there. We're trying to be *gracious* and *professional* by allowing them time to do the right thing rather than throwing the book at them.
For the people trying to rationalize or minimize this, you don't know the whole story yet. I believe that every case of interference in the report was in fact interference and if it comes to it we can present a very convincing argument why.