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Originally Posted by Bharat Nain
If FIRST were to be sponsored by a company that promotes drinking or tobacco, just being around an ad or just having the name written on the FIRST website will make people talk.
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...Except that there's already gigantic Budweiser logos located prominently in the Georgia Dome during the Championships, and you'll see similar things in many regional venues too.
If a company wants to help support FIRST and/or teams, I generally think we should accept it. I don't think it's a good idea for FIRST to take on the responsibility of deciding whether a given organization meets some FIRST-defined moral standard. Look at it this way, no matter what a company has done in the past or what you think of their business, as long as they're supporting FIRST aren't they trying to do at least some good?
(* It would be a puzzling problem though to be sponsored by a beer company: I'd have no problem with them as a sponsor, but sticking their logo on the side of the robot wouldn't sit well with me. I would hope in a case like that they would be understanding and be able to work out a compromise [I suspect they would not want to be accused of marketing to minors anyway so that could help the situation]).