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

Author: Vikrant Malvankar

Date: 21:20:46 11/17/05

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Uri
If thats the case does'nt he deserve part of money they are earning.

On November 17, 2005 at 16:39:31, Uri Blass wrote:

>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
>
>I do not think that you have the right to take legal action against them.
>It is clear that they do not write lies in their site and you were a member in
>the fruit team.
>
>The title is
>Team / History
>It means that if in the history you were a member of the fruit team they have
>the right to mention you.
>
>This is written in the fruit site:
>
>"Marc Lacrosse is the bookbuilder of Fruit. He built the book for the WCCC'05 in
>Reykjavik."
>
>Is there something that is not correct here?
>
>You built the book for the WCCC'05 in Reykjavik is correct.
>I understand that the book of the commercial fruit is also by you and I think
>that they have the right to mention it even if you do not like it.
>
>The book of fruit from some tournament from novemeber is by someone else but
>that tournament is not mentioned in the fruit site.
>
>
>Uri



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