George Duke wrote on Thu, Nov 6, 2008 01:09 AM UTC:
Muller, I assume you received the two October emails not to use patented
Falcon, nor indicate it is licensed after 2008. At any rate, I know Chess
Variant Page will honour my right to keep any program of yours with Falcon out of CVP link in 2009-2010. There I mention my UK attorney's office for one source of necessary enforcement. You stress that you have only invested 100 lines of code, so clearly there should be felt no loss on your part. Good luck with your preferred CVs. Your attitudes toward Falcon have been continually offensive. Larry Smith has pointed out you do not listen to others' input. Falcon is multi-path, not lame, as Aronson's Horus discusses. There Editor Aronson describes Falcon as the exact OPPOSITE of lame provisionally, but then rejects the word at all for leapers. Regardless, ''multi-path'' is part of the Falcon program's vocabulary. ''Lame'' is in CVP glossary for radial pieces not oblique ones. You make no concessions to value-added over 18 years of Falcon development in its articles and literature. You act like something is automatically due you, and others also have read lack of respect for intellectual property, copyright, trademark, patent in your remarks, not only with regard to Falcon. Having had nothing to do with our development from 1992 through 2007, we would not want you, speaking for the entire Falcon team. With any other programmer we would be open to discussion from Zillions to ChessV to Brainking (with which I do consult) or some Game Courier further development. In your case, there is no such inclination. Remove Falcon from your Winboard and whatever other named programs there have been trials at early convenience within 2009-2010. The catalogue of rudeness on your part could reach fifteen points over these three or four, that I will spare this thread and Chess Variant Page. For example, you refer to an expired patent as unmentionable while in same context associating Falcon USP5690334. Trice's patent ran out in 2006; it does not exist except as copyright like any one's rules-set becomes automatically copyrighted. Trice's method itself has reverted to the common domain. One other example of your peculiar waywardness is calling piece that behaves like Darter, as Falcon and many Jetan pieces, ''handicapped.'' Such descriptions can only be characterized as knot-headed. Go forth with your wonderful programming of other variants, excluding Falcon. One further factor is your poor writing skills in descriptions of Leaper, Hopper, Rider at your website. Fine knowledgeable programmer that you are, you have stated favourites among CVs not including Falcon, so we must and can be therefore in complete agreement, to go entirely separate ways with different subject matter in CVs.