Ken wrote:
I haven't seen this exchange. Perhaps it took place somewhere that wasn't archived, or before the archives were created.
You won't find it. The discussion with Frederik took place on the old Compuserve forum.
Well, unless you consider Frederik to be a liar, there is absolutely ZERO code from Fractint used in UF.
Ultrafractal is written in another language, so it is unlikely there is any Fractint code in Ultrafractal. On the other hand, the Fractint team (myself in particular) spent a lot of time answering Frederick's detailed questions and giving him help. He certainly never indicated to us that he planned to use our help in a closed source program, and if he ever credited us, I am not aware of it. I
Frederik commented that he had never looked at the Fractint code.
I don't know if he saw it or not. The fractint source was and still is available for anyone to look at. While I don't object to Jim's bringing this up, I am not personally interested worrying about Ultrafractal's origins or spending any of my time on it. Fractint is based on open source and giving credit where it is due. Ultrafractal is based on neither. Frederick has every right to conduct himself as he has, whether you or I like it or not. So it's a dead issue. Tim