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Originally Posted by rocketperson44
One other thing to consider: When you get down to it, there had to have been a SINGLE PERSON on 546 who said: "Hey, lets do it this way!" How is another team going "Hey, that sounds great" different than the rest of 546's members saying the same thing, if you are working to inspire the community, rather than just your team?
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That's almost exactly how it went down
. And it wasn't just that one person who came up with every fine detail of the design as shown to the rest of the FTC community. The general idea was changed
many times before it worked up to our standards, and even then it could have been improved, as proven by every other design iteration. We're quite glad we showed our robot the way we did last year; it wasn't as easy as it sounds to copy even a general idea, and, quite honestly, we would have lost to every single robot that built on our design. It wasn't just "copied".
Teamwork should extend beyond your team. "Open sourcing" a design, as we call it, does just that (providing you don't give out detailed instructions on how to build it... I mean, let's be reasonable here
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