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Re: New Robot Control System!

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Originally Posted by Gdeaver View Post
Question? What would the First community think of going with something completely new , different and proprietary if the software company was flush with cash and in to sponsoring first in a big way.
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Would you sell your programming soul to MS if it meant lots of cash and support for the First program?
There is a reason that FIRST does not accept sponsorship from liquor companies or tobacco companies. Desite the potential of considrable financial benefit, FIRST has recognized that those products are fundamentally inconsistent with programs involving underage, impressionable young minds. Those companies have cultivated a corporate culture designed to addict and corrupt the creative and innovative intellectual resources of the next generation. They destroy the human capital of the country for the sake of corporate profits.

So why should Microsoft be treated any differently?




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