El_Cu_Guy
02-06-2003, 11:24 AM
As some of you know I dislike misinformation and complete BS (I am a former visitor to Adequacy.org). I really hate it when it invades sights which I used to view for quality information.
One such moron invaded osOpinion named Mike Berman. In his latest article concerning the Mono project he writes [again] as if the subject is brand new and almost as if he is the first to hear about it (which I mention in my response).
Well this "article" really got to me. Why? Because I had read it a few hours before MB submitted it to osOpinion.
Both articles were posted on Feb 3 however, the original was newsprint and puplished to the website long before it appeared at osOpinion. Linux.org even provided a link hours before it appeared there as well. The original version written by Justin Pope of the Associated Press and published by the Minneapolis-St.Paul Star Tribune is much more informative. Also as most people know newspapers are always printed the night before. Given the editors' (osOpinion) fast response whenever something is submitted it's not hard to believe that this was submitted shortly after MB had read the article elsewhere.
In my response I noted the plagarism, stating that it seemed MB had simply chopped the article and gone through it briefly with a thesaurus. If you read my response to the article you will notice that the entire paragraph where I mention this has been removed for editorial review.
Articles:
ORIGINAL (http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/3626339.html) (edit: original version but not original posting)
Mike Berman version (http://osopinion.com/perl/story/20656.html)
If you want you can also visit MB's sad excuse for a tech wesite at jocgeek.com
One such moron invaded osOpinion named Mike Berman. In his latest article concerning the Mono project he writes [again] as if the subject is brand new and almost as if he is the first to hear about it (which I mention in my response).
Well this "article" really got to me. Why? Because I had read it a few hours before MB submitted it to osOpinion.
Both articles were posted on Feb 3 however, the original was newsprint and puplished to the website long before it appeared at osOpinion. Linux.org even provided a link hours before it appeared there as well. The original version written by Justin Pope of the Associated Press and published by the Minneapolis-St.Paul Star Tribune is much more informative. Also as most people know newspapers are always printed the night before. Given the editors' (osOpinion) fast response whenever something is submitted it's not hard to believe that this was submitted shortly after MB had read the article elsewhere.
In my response I noted the plagarism, stating that it seemed MB had simply chopped the article and gone through it briefly with a thesaurus. If you read my response to the article you will notice that the entire paragraph where I mention this has been removed for editorial review.
Articles:
ORIGINAL (http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/3626339.html) (edit: original version but not original posting)
Mike Berman version (http://osopinion.com/perl/story/20656.html)
If you want you can also visit MB's sad excuse for a tech wesite at jocgeek.com