Re: [epub] Copying ideas

["M. Evans" <marye@xxxxxxx>]

From: "M. Evans" <marye@mvp.net>

At 06:42 PM 8/18/99 +0200, you wrote:

>
>It usually happens like this: someone will publish an article
>containing his or her ideas or insights on a given topic. Then, a
>short time - sometimes even mere hours - later, another writer,
>operating in the same field, will come out with an article
>espousing the same ideas, and in the same or a similar context.
>The difference is that they are presented in the second author's
>own words and own style.    
>

This is about integrity.  Plain, simple integrity.  

And it's not just ideas and insights being stolen.  (Yeah, I said stolen,
and I meant stolen!)  I once found a site with some information on it that
would have been useful to people frequenting several boards.  I got my
tidbit posted to 2 of the places, and as I visited the others, I found my
bit being posted by someone who frequented the same boards as I, just as if
the poster had ferreted out the stuff, himself.  He even paraphrased some
of my comments and used them.  A small thing, maybe, but I set a mental
flag not to buy from, or do business with him.

Some people have so little understanding about what makes one a person who
is respected, and well thought of that they actually believe that this kind
of thievery will cause to be imbued upon them the same high regard as on
the originator.  

Giving credit to an originator announces one's own integrity, and signals
self-esteem, self-confidence, and a desire to help others on one's part.

Everybody doesn't have those qualities, nor do they realize that whatever
they hope to gain moves further away from them as they practice deceit.  In
the end, the proof is in the pudding.

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