Hello Will,

I am Geoff, the creator of FileArts and the brother of Peter, the creator of k4bb. I am glad that you have taken a renewed interest in our old hobby. However, I am a little confused about your online statements.

Originally Posted by Will2 One of four. Enjoy the new version.

You claim to be "One of four" of the original developers. This is patently false knowing that my brother and I developed this together in our free time. Neither he nor I remember a Will helping us. Perhaps you could clarify if you went by some alias at the time that we might be familiar with.

I took the liberty to download your 'new' beta of k4bb to see what, if any, changes you have made. As I was looking through the modification timestamps, I noticed that only a very select few files had been changed since 2006. On a hunch, my brother did a diff of your 'release' compared to a copy from the BerliOS repository. I would encourage people to have a look at http://codepad.org/POfsdML2 to see the output.

What has changed? Peter's copyrights on some files have been changed to Will's without a single substantive change. Other changes include binary changes to thumbs.db (oops, another Windows developer). The final two noted changes are in header and footer templates/graphics in the same dubious vein as the aforementioned changes.

Perhaps, I am way off-base and there is something very innocuous going on here but I am worried that this may be an abuse of the open source philosophy and my brother and my hard work.

Please explain,

Geoff Goodman (b1ind)