on 28/1/04 8:31 pm the person going by the name Eggy Toast at
eggy@eggtastic.com spake :
quoted 6 lines Reading through both articles, I see similar ideas but no plagiarism.>
> Reading through both articles, I see similar ideas but no plagiarism.
> Different methods are discussed, different approaches to a similar topic
> are used. News is news -- just because CNN reports on something doesn't
> mean that other news sources are plagiarizing CNN because they report the
> same news in a different way with a different approach.
Yeah, I hadn't read the full initial article when I made that sweeping
generalisation. I read it later and though "d'oh".
quoted 4 lines Considering that MLK Jr plagiarized large sections of his doctorate thesis> Considering that MLK Jr plagiarized large sections of his doctorate thesis
> (and he actually plagiarized, by lifting large sections of text without
> citation) and we still get national holidays about him, I'd say it isn't
> looked upon as poorly as theft ;D
True, I suspect that Issac Newton's quote "If I have seen farther than
others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." is
probably more appropriate to the BW article.
History also has a fantastic way of re-writing itself to suit those who are
stronger.
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