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Re: 1706 Computer Vision Source Code

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Originally Posted by faust1706 View Post
I do apologize but I will not be releasing any previous or current competition code largely due to the satisfaction you get when you figure something out and it works. People would lose that if I just gave them a working code that can easily be adjusted between the years to track whatever needs to be tracked.
I feel a large part of open sourcing software is so that other people can build on it and do even greater things with it than you did. Reinventing the wheel over and over again (in parallel, no less) seems like a waste of all of our times.

I'm glad that the developers of OpenCV don't have that view.
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