Re: plagiarism

["mike shupp" mikeshupp@xxxxxxxx]

Morris:

FWIW, I did a Google search and found a reference to PRD+

http://www.utexas.edu/law/journals/tiplj/volumes/vol4iss3/perdue.html


Nothing of real interest, except possibly to lawyers. (PRD+ sued
when someone copied the functionality of their program and the
New York state courts flattened them -- PRD, that is -- like a
pancake lying on a freeway.)


Another useful program of the same vintage was JOT.


Possibly these programs or clones could be found in the Simtel archives.

--shupp


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Morris Krok" 
Reply-To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
To: 
Subject: plagiarism
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 09:36:28 -0700

from Morris,

   What the group has not brought up is the question of plagiarism. Now
that I have no conscience when it comes to the reproducing of out of print
material, even if they are Xy3 and Xy4 manuals, I am totally against the
stealing of someone's intellectual ideas by passing it off as if I or
someone else was the originator of the material. When I reprint I mention
when the material was last published and often who it was published by.

  I mention plagiarism because I know of case where a book was reproduced
almost word for word, except for a few minor changes, and those issuing this
edition took the credit of writing it. A note in small print in an
inconspicuous page in front mentioned the original author as an
acknowledgement.

  I would be interested in those websites containing abandoned dos
software. One such program that should be there is the Prd+ shorthand
program. The firm that produced had their offices in New York, but no one
has been able to locate them since.







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