FIRST's patents

[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by Pavan Dave

I saw this on Reddit and /. just seconds ago and searched and found this discussion.

I just lost almost all respect I had for Dean and FIRST for doing something as pointless as this. I hope this patent gets overturned. No matter what he says, what he does, this does NOT help robotics. I can see the one day where FIRST goes from trying to beat other programs and legally hurting other programs because it can't compete in certain areas.


I give it a matter of years before everybody knows and has participated in FIRST...for all the wrong reasons.


Pavan Davé

This is a tremendous over-reaction.

Do you have any information that points to FIRST trying to enforce these patents against other organizations? Because I haven't seen any.

By coming on here and saying something like you lost all respect for FIRST and Dean for filing for a patent is irresponsible. Make a decision based off of the facts...not what you think may happen, and if you can't do that, at least wait for more facts to come out before you make judgement.

-Brando