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Originally Posted by Madison
In real life, if someone asks you to build a boat and then, when you deliver it, they say, "There's actually no water here. We want a plane instead," your performance isn't judged on the effectiveness of your boat as an airplane.
In this case, we are in no position to make material changes to our product in response to the shifting requirements and we will be judged, in terms of our performance on the field, based on the outdated result.
Apples and oranges, in my opinion.
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Doesn't mean you can't have the best of both worlds...
I totally agree though. FIRST doesn't have anything to lose in making these changes except their credibility*, and based on the reaction here it looks like they had already lost that in the eyes of many old timers.
*This is regardless of whether it was a necessary change or not (and it sounds like it probably was). It just means that participants will not trust FIRST in the future to keep to their original specifications, which breeds ill-will in any organization.