FRC Blogged - The 2015 Control System Request for Proposa

[Paul Copioli]

Originally Posted by FrankJ
NI does not depend on making money from us to stay in business. I imagine a smaller company like IFI would.
Common misconception. My understanding is during IFI's run of making our control system, Rack Solutions was their big money maker. With the introduction of VEX they are obviously doing more than fine without FIRST.

Cory is right. Last year FRC business (including team sales of the Victor and other FRC specific items) was about 1% of VEX's business, not IFI's business. If you include Rack Solutions and that little toy company called Hexbug, then I imagine it is less than 0.3% of the total IFI business. So we would not depend on the revenue if we decided to propose.

Paul