[Nemo]

In FRC and in industry, teams are presented with problems, variations of which have been solved many times over in the past. It's very difficult to solve these problems in a completely original way. It is an accepted and sensible practice to seek out and draw from existing solutions.

Ri3D is a set of open source solutions to a more specific problem to which your competitors also have free access. This situation doesn't break a market or an FRC competition, because the open source stuff isn't good enough to win the game. It's just the baseline. Better solutions are waiting to be identified, and it's also possible to execute the existing solutions better in many different ways. Plenty of room for innovation exists even in the presence of products that already work well.