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Re: Future FRC Technologies?

Perhaps the largest contribution I could see for FRC tech is to open-source & allow the Driver Station to run on ALL major operating systems, rather than just Windows.

In addition to not having to worry about Windows updates as much, it'd allow teams running Linux or macOS (for any number of reasons) to not use WINE / Bootcamp / Parallels Desktop. The fact that WPILib is open-source, as well as The Blue Alliance, many team's robot & website repos, and QDriverStation & FRC Drive, just to name a few, and yet the Driver Station remains a close-source and OS-exclusive piece of software seems almost counter-productive.

A Short, Collected List of Opensource & FRC
https://github.com/gluxon/DriverStation.js
https://github.com/the-blue-alliance/the-blue-alliance
https://github.com/Team254/cheesy-arena
https://github.com/WinT-3794/QDriverStation
https://github.com/AquaMorph/FRC-Drive
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