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Unread 18-01-2005, 14:18
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Re: 'Fix It Window' and Programming....

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Originally Posted by ahecht
If you have a practice robot, are you allowed to tweak that code to give your drivers an accurate training experience?
Nope. Software development is software development. We can draw the line on what constitutes development wherever we want (i.e., whether or not algorithm design, flow charting, pseudo-code, or punch lists constitute software development), but wherever that line is drawn, downloading new code is on the wrong side.

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Originally Posted by ShadowKnight
The problem becomes even more confusing with FIRST's overt encouragement of practice robots.
I don't think the recent ruling that R14 doesn't prohibit practice robots is anywhere near an "overt encouragement". Rule R14 was clearly written (ok, maybe "clearly" is a stretch) to discourage them, but did not go to the point of forbidding them.

Why a rule would be written like that is beyond me. Any rule writers wanna help out here?
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