Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Nick Ferguson Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Plagiarism... Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 15:30:48 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 31 Message-ID: <35B35498.6FCD@saqnet.co.uk> Reply-To: nickf@saqnet.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: atl5-030.publab.ed.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.03 (Win95; I) Hiya all, I suppose most of you will have checked out the 'Plagiarism' bit in the members homepages section of the WWW site (if not, do so now). Now, I don't have anything to do with it - aside from the fact the tutorial will prove v. handy for my GDUK entry :-) - but I do have one opinion which I think is a fair one... Why is it that whenever something like this happens, people feel the need to shout about it from the rooftops? George - couldn't you have mailed Paul privately and discussed the matter via e-mail between yourselves? Certainly, it would be a bit more mature than screaming and pointing the finger in front of everyone (which is *exactly* what you did). And as a SCEE employee, as opposed to a regular member, you must appreciate that is NOT acceptable behaviour :-( Now, I don't want to contribute to some little feud by forcing George to justify his right to indignation, but to me the situation is very difficult. I've barely mastered the art of displaying sprites, but after scouring numerous sprite tutorials I have to admit they all say pretty much the same thing (in many cases, almost exactly the same thing)! Is it really so unlikely that 2 people's routines for a fairly simple task should be so alike? Personally, I don't think that any member would do anything so dumb as to post another person's code and pretend it was their own. It isn't exactly the most amazing, intricate bit of work on the site, is it? George - I'm really looking forward to your tutorial and you can bet I'll learn a lot form it. I hope, though, that when I begin implementing your ideas in my code you won't be treating me the same way you treated Paul... Nick F