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Originally Posted by David55
I am not a big fan of this idea only because they are doing it for profit. They realized that without the FTC cooperation (and all the money involved) the vex platform will become obsolete. I wouldn\\\'t say that the promotion of science and technology is the first thing on their priority list.
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You might want to be careful what kind of double standards you create for yourself. Blind loyalty of anything only prevents you from being objective. Will you apply this same logic to Lego, Pitsco, GE, Apple, Google, National Instruments and others. I guarantee you Lego makes much more profit off FIRST and teams then any of us can probably guess. If anyone thinks promoting science and technology is the reason Lego does FIRST or wants to replace Vex, that would be a very naive belief. What about DEKA? I saw Dean on TV yesterday, will your next post criticize Dean for all his medical inventions and the water cleaner because he has become very rich selling these products he creates? I wouldn\'t. Good for him and good for us.
I applaud IFI and whoever the partners are supporting this new competition for doing this. My team had to leave FIRST because it was too expensive and too hard, this might be an opportunity for us to get robotics back in our old school. More choices, especially if they are cheaper for schools and still high quality, are good. If there are thousands of schools already using Vex, then this new program is doing a great service to those schools by helping provide places for them to play if FIRST isn\'t going to anymore.