Posted by Joe Johnson at 1/22/2001 8:57 PM EST
Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
In Reply to: here...
Posted by joe Carlton on 1/22/2001 8:19 PM EST:
AutoDesk has been a huge sponsor of FIRST for many years.
They are kind enough to offer a license to any team
that participates in FIRST.
In fairness to them, I urge teams not to hack their code.
The cost of more licenses is a lot, but that is the way
that the world works. Chief Delphi "gets around" the
bottle neck by using prior year's licenses to make most
of the models and much of the animation.
In this way, we are able to have more than one person
working on the animation without resorting to stealing
or expensive extra licenses.
Maybe I am too much of a boy scout about this software
piracy stuff, but then again, maybe it's the right
thing to do. You decide.
Joe J.