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

Author: Thomas Logan

Date: 13:26:14 11/17/05

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On November 17, 2005 at 16:19:13, Marc Lacrosse wrote:

>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

wow !

What book is fruit playing with now ?

Tom



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