Xref: utzoo news.groups:16080 comp.sys.amiga:46689 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!thad From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: comp.sys.amiga.questions Message-ID: <25549@cup.portal.com> Date: 2 Jan 90 22:27:08 GMT References: <7049@nigel.udel.EDU> <57b.02t179Uh01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <123.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> <25508@cup.portal.com> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 44 In peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) asks: " But... > Additionally, I can see less technical content to be posted in the > future due to increasing plagiarism FOR MONEY of material posted to > the Usenet. This is why I have stopped posting technical material > to comp.sys.amiga; I'm getting weary and more than pissed off at > stuff appearing in rags such as "Amazing Computing" and the > "Transactor for the Amiga" without due credit being given. Interesting. Care to cite cases? ... Did you put copyright notices on your messages? " Copyright notices on Usenet messages? Sheesh! :-) The simple act of posting to Usenet effectively placed the information in the public domain, and I deliberately did that (in many cases) simply because I wanted to share the info and was not thinking of monetary compensation for my time to write the articles. This is sort of the "spirit" of Usenet: the willingness to SHARE information. I have NO intention of suing those magazines since they, per se, are not culpable (though I *DO* believe they should better referee articles they publish); the fault lies with several authors/contributors to those mags who were paid for "their" articles. As far as "cases": though there are many which come to mind (and I DO have archives of most material posted to several "favorite" newsgroups (including Amiga-related stuff back to the very first mention of the Amiga way back in the net.micro.*, mod.*, etc. groups), and I do have copies of most Amiga- related magazines ever since the respective "Vol.1,No.1"), the two most recent which "pissed me off" were the ones pertaining to hard disk stiction problems and to MC68010 usage. "...due credit being given" only meant to cite the SOURCE of the original work(s) plagiarized for the (magazine) articles. That's all. I consider the authors' failure to do so unethical. Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]