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Originally Posted by keen101
well, sure. I think it's great that FIRST is evolving. I think it was necessary to move to a better controller. While i liked IFI, i did not like how proprietary there stuff was.
with the new cRIO a lot of stuff is Open Source. That in itself i think will help shape FIRST in a good way.
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Is VxWorks, the operating system that the cRIO uses, open source? Nope. Does LabView use an open source compiler? Nope. Does the C++ development environment that we're using come with a license that allows us to run it after 2010? Nope. The only thing that
is open source is the WPI library.
The new controller has its benefits, but openness isn't one of them.