Dear Abd ulRahman Lomax, I wrote (18 May 2005): > Russ Paielli proposed "Ranked Approval Voting" (RAV). Then he was > pointed to the fact that presumably this method had already been > proposed by Kevin Venzke. Russ Paielli immediately stopped claiming > that he had invented RAV. Russ Paielli didn't say something like: > "I hadn't read Kevin's proposal when I proposed RAV. Therefore, > I can rightly claim that I invented RAV."
You wrote (18 May 2005): > Yet, if his conception of the method were truly independent, if he > did not derive it by reading it somewhere, he could, in fact, have > continued to claim that. What he could not claim is that he "first" > invented it, once he was aware of prior work.(...) This constant > personality discussion here is tiresome and a huge distraction > for everyone involved, except for those who simply ignore it. Sorry for my sloppy formulation. I didn't mean to offend Russ Paielli. I was referring to this conversation: http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2005-April/015539.html http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2005-April/015545.html http://lists.electorama.com/pipermail/election-methods-electorama.com/2005-April/015546.html I didn't mean to say that Russ Paielli tried to claim credit for something that he didn't deserve credit for. Markus Schulze ---- Election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
