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Subject: To Fruit's author Fabien Letouzey and commercial manager Joachim Rang

Author: Marc Lacrosse

Date: 13:19:13 11/17/05


As I consider that Fabien Letouzey and Joachim Rang did not act with minimally
correct behaviour toward myself on their way for going commercial with Fruit, I
asked them to be removed from the list of their team members on
www.fruitchess.com.

Although they promised to do it, nothing has been done for weeks and I am still
being presented as their book-cooker on fruitchess.com although Fruit has
already been playing inbetween in a public competition with someone else's book.

So I decided to let you know that I just sent the following mail to them (see at
the end of this post)

Marc Lacrosse

COPY OF MY MAIL:

Dear Fabien, Dear Joachim,

In his 12.11.2005 mail Joachim told me that he would mention on fruitchess.com
that i am not Fruit's bookcooker anymore.
As this is not yet done today 17.11.2005 I send this last mail to you  and begin
to switch to other kinds of actions.

Considering how you deal with those who helped you graciously with hours and
days (or weeks!) of work before you decided to try to get some money from these
largely collective efforts, I think that the computer chess community should be
aware of your way of acting.

Clearly as long as I could be of some help, I was scarcely given some minimal
knowledge of what was going on. But at the same time you were glad to get my bug
reports, parameters tunings and opening preparations while you were already busy
attributing my job in the team to someone else.

That's your way of going on. I am quite sure that it won't be too successful in
the long run. I already have records of several talented people who once helped
you and clearly decided to go away or already started to help other concurrent
initiatives.

Several weeks have passed since i first asked you to be removed from the
description of your team's members on fruitchess.com. You clearly decided not to
do anything as other components of your site were updated inbetween. Be it your
laziness or anything else doesn't matter anymore : time has come to let all this
be known on chess computing forums.

In case this should not be sufficient, I keep open all options of proceeding
with legal action against your abusive use of my name and work on your site.

Pr.Dr. Marc Lacrosse







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