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Goodbye IFI?

In light of recent events it seems to me like the writing is on the wall that FIRST wants to close its relationship with IFI. The question remains, what will happen to FIRST without IFI? And what is the reasoning behind the decisions?

FVC to FTC - Why would first rename the program unless they are planning to loose the vex platform in the future? I can understand why FIRST might not want to name a program after a product but the fact that JFLL and FLL are named after lego it makes it difficult to draw any other conclusions.

New control system for 09 - There have been no details of what the replacement will be, but it is assumed not to be made by IFI. There are reasons for this as the technology has gotten better, but why completely reinvent the wheel. In the past when upgrades have been made to the IFI system no announcement was made (Pbasic to C, memory upgrade, Victor 883 to 884, etc)

Changing from the old kit transmission to bane bots

In addition to the products made for FIRST many other things have been have contributed by this company with this it forces me to wonder if first cutting their nose off to spite their face? ie. What is the motivation for all of these “anti-IFI” decisions? I know I have assumed a few things but this is because I see some evidence that leads up to it. I am just concerned, like many of you.
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