Thread: Should FIRST Release the 2009 Control System beta Libraries and information?
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Should FIRST Release the 2009 Control System beta Libraries and information?
The beta test teams currently have access to beta versions of the libraries for the compactRIO. While the limited number of compactRIO controllers obviously limits the size of the beta test, FIRST is compounding the advantage by limiting access to the programming libraries, and other controller information, to those teams.

While the explaination given for this is that they don't want teams to panic/plan based on inaccurate or unfinalized information, I think it is patronizing of FIRST to presume that the non-beta test teams are incapable of handling this.

I may be in the wrong about this, and so I am putting this poll up to see what the rest of the FIRST community thinks.
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