[fa.laser-lovers] Apology for lack of credit

laser-lovers@uw-beaver (04/23/85)

From: mss%dartvax%dartmouth.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa

Van,

In a recent letter, you pointed out that we at Dartmouth had taken Jane
Colman's VMS version of dvi2qms.web, and erased all mention of both her and
lbl. I looked at the program we are using currently, and indeed, you're
right. The only explanation I can offer is that I never read through the
code to catch errors like that, because I knew that it would not be
generally released as it stood, in any case. It was not the case that we
deliberately failed to give her credit, but rather that we were careless. We
accidently sent this version out to people who asked for it without thinking
to add the necessary comments and credits, both to her and to the General
Electric Foundation which funded our work at Dartmouth. We're sorry if we
caused any misconceptions or hurt feelings.

Karl Berry (karl@dartmouth)
Mark Sherman (mss@dartmouth)