[MikeDubreuil]

Their is a significant difference in the ability to reverse engineer hardware over software. Many people can look at an assembly and then create a design from it. Thereby duplicating that assembly without mechanical drawings. The same can not be said about the software. Sure, you can guess as to how the code is implemented. However, you still don't know the design or the implementation.

I think it would be a step forward for teams to share their code. It's against my perception of FIRST to allow veteran teams to dominate autonomous by leveraging years of software development. It might be a good solution in the private sector but not in FIRST.