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Originally Posted by yash101

GP protects you because most teams team will not want to copy an idea! It just doesn't happen, most of the times!

This will happen all of the time. It is a good thing that it happens, and it is not at all contrary to GP. Good engineering necessarily entails cribbing from designs that work. The reason teams share ideas is so other teams can gain from them. FRC would be a poor engineering exercise indeed if it did not both allow and promote this; remember that as much as FRC is a competition, it is also a communal challenge in which teams work together to deliver working solutions. There should be neither shame nor offense involved when a team copies another team; it is an essential part of good problem-solving, and the gracious and professional thing to do is to promote it, not to discourage it.