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From: macsuppor@a1.nl (DEnnis Brinkhuis)
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Subject: Re: Plagiarism...
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 21:10:02 +0100
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You got me curious. What happened?

DEnnis..

> 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