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Subject: Re: Controversy about who's 1st author of Gnuchess..........John? or Stu

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 23:03:13 03/28/04

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On March 29, 2004 at 01:56:39, stegner, jamie wrote:

>acc. to their resumes. stuart regards himself as the original author; while john
>does not. if memory serves me right, john once called(or let it be called) his
>work "gnuchess 2".
>
>my rationale on this question is:
>
>HOW CAN ANYONE BE REGARDED AS THE ORiGiNAL AUTHOR WITHOUT ANY PROGRAM OR SOURCE
>FILE AVAILABLE ON THE NET AND NO BODY HAS EVER CLAIMED HE'S SEEN A COPY OR HE
>OWNS ONE.
>
>as u know various doc files included in gnuchess packages are writtten by john.
>maybe he posted them w/ other gnuchess files; and i have never read nor found
>any doc file on gnuchess programming skills written by stuart.
>
>but many packages attribute (c) to stuart cracraft. john stanback, daryl baker,
>mike mcgann... why he is the first on the list?
>
>was stuart's result was UN-offical?  it really existed as working program?
>
>PS) imho, without regard to (c) notices, the 1st on the list should be john.
>
>best // jamie

This doesn't answer Ricardo's question: why not ask them by email?


Andrew Williams




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