I dunno.. gah I guess I'm just frustrated at macroeconomics...
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Andy Baker and Mark Coors are awesome individuals. AndyMark provides great stuff to FIRST teams as a supplier to the kit and as a maker of COTS parts for FIRST robots. Here is a secret. AndyMark is not a charitable institution. They make money from FIRST teams (Zounds!)
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I don't mean this rude... If I were in a large company and I saw FIRST.. I would give everything free.. or if I was in a small one-- everything would be at cost . If everyone did this.. the kit would be less.. and thus every year you wouldn't pay 6k.. which would enable more students to be inspired(because more team would be able to go). I know this is hard for small companies, and I understand why they have to do this. I think FIRST should target only the very large companies that understand the ideas of FIRST and give everything at cost, or donate(I know several already do). A free kit would be nice.. and maybe it's on the FIRST horizon. Or maybe I'm a fool