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Re: cease all software development?

Well the thread was heading off into an area I was uncomfortable with.
To para phrase what I was reading
"Since its will be next to impossible to enforce how can FIRST enforce no software developement?"
And it was stated a few times GP is how.

Most of use could find dozens of ways to break dozens of rules and not get caught in this game. Does that mean we should? And then blame someone else because we could?
Or do we follow the rules, play the game as designed and hope we designed well?
I guess its ultimately a personnal decision but since we are trying to inspire the future here I would like to think we are helping towards working within the system, not looking for ways to cheat it.

As for the larger (and I hope point of the thread) question.

I can't see how you can't think about the robot, assy's, code or whatnot after shipping but there is a difference between jotting down a few notes and working with a duplicate robotic system to test code.
Having meetings specifically to work on the code after shipping is obviously outside of the rules (except for teh 5 hour build times allowed) but having one of my math students suddenly yell out in class "All I need to do is look at the DIFFERENCE between the encoders" two days after shipping is both OK and expected. He notes it down and takes the thought to competition to code.
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