Thread: Design Sharing
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Unread 08-01-2004, 19:05
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Re: Design Sharing

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Originally Posted by Stephen Kowski
Well just ask Truck Town Thunder about sharing their designs before....FIRST goes and makes a rule essentially saying what they worked on for six weeks is not allowed. They shared their design and got burned by FIRST....That's motivation enough for some of the teams I know to keep their designs a secret.
Would it have been better if 68 had shown up at competition and the FIRST officials had decreed then their design was illegal?

Would it have been better if their design, which FIRST believed to be illegal, was allowed to compete anyways?
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