Dear Dr Kirby, I would like to apologize if I contributed to any misunderstanding. I had not read through all of your previous public correspondence and agreement not to prolong the debate in public, and neither have I read and compared your codes.
Doing so in sufficient detail would have caused me to give up my own work and also my own preferred recreation, namely chess, and therefore I would not be using Scid. Since deciphering computer code is not my business, I choose to remain a humble user without concerning myself with who gets the credit for writing it. I will remain thankful to Mr/Ms X. Who that X is, I hope you can reach some settlement, publicly or privately. I am getting back to work, as I also work weekends. I apologize to you for wasting your time, but more importantly to myself, for wasting my own time. From now on, I will simply not read most of this daily mail, even it is Our Father who trespasses into our Inbox as we trespass so often into the supersacred Inboxes of others, or who borrows code as often as we borrow code from others, and leadeth us not into frustration but hopefully delivereth us from email. For thine is the mailing list forever and ever. But the meek users shall inherit the software. I hope you, Pascal and everyone have a good weekend, and many more good weekdays and weekends to come. Amen. Aniket On 16/02/07, Dr. David Kirkby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aniket Basu wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am sure Dr Kirby did not wish to prolong the debate in public, > > That is very true. As you say, I did not send my comments to the list, > but to you privately. Also Christian makes that point. > > I want this to stop. > > > If Pascal uses his code, why, imitation is known to be the highest > > form of flattery. > > Yes, agreed. > > Likewise if I use any of Pascal's code for ChessDB, he can consider it > flattery. I'm impressed with some of what Pascal has done. No all of it, > but some I am. > > > There is no reason for Dr Kirby to be touchy about his code, > > I don't believe I am being touchy, but feel I have *very* good reason to > be *very* annoyed to find large amounts copied, AND the following 3 > points. (HAD PASCAL COPIED THE CODE, WITHOUT THESE POINTS, THEN IT WOULD > HAVE BEEN FINE.) > > 1) Pascal has said "I deny him the right to use my own code, as I'll > never use his own code" > > 2) Pascal's ChangeLog says "The base of these changes is the latest > Scid-3.6.1 available at http://scid.sourceforge.net"; > > 3) Pascal's explanation for the small amount of copied code with a typo > ("Shane is NOT reponsible for bugs in Scid") was "The sentence you quote > belongs to a mail you sent to me and I copied/pasted it to my code". > > 4) He has stated numerous times that ChessDB is a fork of Scid, but > Scid-pg is not a fork. > > It is clear to me, and anyone else who is *objective* about this, that > > A) Pascal was *knowingly* using my code when he said "I deny him the > right to use my own code, as I'll never use his own code" > > B) Pascal knew the base of his code was http://chessdb.sourceforge.net/ > when he wrote it was http://scid.sourceforge.net/ > > C) Pascal knew the explanation for the inclusion of my typo (him simply > copying and pasting from an email I sent) was a lie. > > Anyway, I think we have ALL had enough of this. > > Dr. David Kirkby. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Scid-users mailing list > Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
