Ethics 101: To re-use or not to re-use?

[ewankoff]

As i said in my last post and like alot of other people have said, FIRST is about learning. This rule is simply a big sign saying "learn from your code and know how it works" and so no one blindly copies things that they dont really know about (I know Kevin's code is hard to understand but an attempt can be made). Sharing your code is a great idea but in no means should it be the loophole for this rule. Yes teams that put in the hard work should reap the rewards but, these teams should be able to teach new programmers, robot designers, or someone with a question year to year about their code or part. I see copying and pasting code to be the same as sending a coppied CAD drawing of a mechanical component to a machinest. no one learns from anything. If some one learns from part of the robot in any way it is a whole of a lot better. FIRST is about teaching the students and simply copying and pasting or stealing designs is neither a goal of FIRST nor in the spirit of FIRST.