Thread: To FMSLight or not FMSLight, that is the question.
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Re: To FMSLight or not FMSLight, that is the question.
Truth be told: I'd like to see FIRST open-source the full FMS, complete with Audience overlay screens Results screens and current season scoring components.

I don't think they need to help us set it up (I realize it requires SQL Server and such)

HQ won't give you the FMS with a field borrowed for an offseason unless you have an FTA. It seems to me, from nearly every offseason I've experienced, that most of them have an FTA and get the full FMS.

I understand the concerns about open-sourcing FMS possibly exposing weak points, and opening the door to the possibility of more Einstein-2012 type debacles, but I believe that by open-sourcing it, such vulnerabilities are much more likely to be found and fixed before Bad Things (TM) happen.

There already exists a partial open-source clone of FMS on sourceforge (though the project appears to have been abandoned some months ago).

For me? FMS Light was not really much use. FMSDelta was a far superior variant, but I would have preferred the full FMS. Sadly, none of the download links to that server at HQ that had them seem to work any more.
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