Path: utzoo!censor!becker!ziebmef!ncrcan!hcr!john
From: john@hcr.UUCP (John R. MacMillan)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: CRISP: tacky use of my splay tree code.
Message-ID: <5365@hcr.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 89 21:50:02 GMT
References: <2706@rtech.rtech.com> <440@ontenv.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@hcrvax.UUCP (John R. MacMillan)
Organization: HCR Corporation, Toronto
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In article <440@ontenv.UUCP> soley@ontenv.UUCP writes:
|In article <2706@rtech.rtech.com>, daveb@rtech.rtech.com (Dave Brower) writes:
|: I'd tried to encourage the use of splay trees by posting a library in 
|: comp.sources.unix last year.  The code in CRISP is obviously derived 
|: from my library, but contains not a whit of credit from me or 
|: acknowledgement of the source.
|: ...
|: 
|: Phthhhhpt!!! to you Mr Fox.  It is tacky at best to rip code off and
|: imply that it is yours.  How much else of CRISP did you steal?
|
|Well, you're in good company Dave, Mr. Fox also seems to be claiming
|ownership of Doug Gwyn's directory access library

From the docs:

	"These modules contain libraries that either I have built
	or have been collected from postings on the Usenet."

Now it may have been (ok, it was) contrary to netiquette not to
explicitly credit the authors, but I certainly don't see justification
for terms like "steal" or "claiming ownership".  Especially if these
libraries were posted to "encourage [their] use", it seems a bit
juvenile to let your nose get too far out of joint.
-- 
John R. MacMillan		Wasn't me she was foolin' 'cause she knew
HCR Corporation			what she was doin' when she told me how to
{utzoo,utcsri}!hcr!john		awk this way  --  Ahosmith