Oohh - this is going to be a very touchy subject.
There are 2 ways you can go in this - eather you can say "Gracious Professionalism" or you can say "each team is unique and should keep it that way." (or close to it - you know what i'm trying to hint at) But my view on this is something that is great - say a special action for the field or some sort of drive train - you should be able to share. I think by the time that you develop it and test it - other teams will have began their own robot design - and i'll put money that says the 2 will be incompatable. Some of the times you may be able to get away with it - but unless you are planning something close to that design - the other teams won't be able to "borrow" that design.
I say we share. Some teams will make something pretty generic (that it can go on all robots) so for thoes teams i don't see any huge problems. But for some of the veteran teams out there that have designed some very sweet drive train or some sort of mechanism - they should share the wealth. I realise that this will probally throw some flames - but seriously - if someone (after all the engineering/testing/ect...) released something - it will be probally close to impossible in the timeframe to "borrow" that design...
