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Originally Posted by MikeDubreuil
Here's my 10 cents...
Teams have a 1 season monopoly on their software. If a veteran team wants to re-use code from a previous year they should be required to post it in a "Software Portfolio" hosted by FIRST. The portfolio is publicly available to everyone. A new regional award can be created for veteran teams who share code, "The Software Award." An award that celebrates a teams generosity and their ability to write good software with even better documentation.
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There is a huge difference between hardware and software. Teams post their designs or pictures, other teams take them, and make them themselves. The thing with that is, they actually have to do
some work actually making the parts. Or maybe they go and find a way to make it lighter or whatever.
With software, someone has to simply quickly download the files or do a quick copypasta. Maybe they have to go as far as to declare a few variables.
As Bharat as repeatedly said, you cannot compare hardware and software.