[keen101]

Sorry to revive an old thread, but I'd like to input my say.

Kevin,

For the most part it is probably a small crowd. But, as the years go by more and more people are turning to Linux.

It's about freedom of choice and flexibility. FIRST has a philosophy that everyone should have an equal footing. But, in a sense FIRST is inadvertently restricting the use of resources to teams by forcing teams to use proprietary software.

For some that's fine, but for others it's a painstaking experience to find solutions to using it they way they want/need.

It'd be nice to have an Open Source solution for ANYONE who does not want to use the current MPLAB from FIRST. It could be multi-platform, so it courd be used by Linux, Macs, or Windows users.

With more freedom... Better talents and ideas can come though.