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What is not good to see is that Dr Santosh continues to pillory people
for their imagined stands, rather than their actual stances! He seeks
to make it out that I've "changed" my "stance" on plagarism. My point
has been, and continues to be, that plagarism is most of the time not
such a blatant, clear, black-or-white case as in the current "Kenneth"
case allows it to be. Secondly, that there are different ways to
handle "plagarism" issues, apart from Dr Santosh's "cease and desist"
suggestions. Placing one's content under the Creative Commons license
is one such possibility. Allowing liberal not-for-profit reproduction
by those seeking permission is another possibility. Peer-ridicule, as
is happening with "Kenneth", is another strong deterrent and solution.
At the same time, we must acknowledge that our work is often
influenced by the work of people who have gone prior to us... and
palgarism not always as blatant as we have seen in the case mentioned
below. --FN

On 13/05/07, Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >That's very sad. Is Kenneth real? Does he expect to
> >get away with such blatant plagarism? The only
> >consolation is that copying is the best form of
> >flattery (and, here it is verbatim flattery).
> >
>
> Good to see that Frederick has changed his stance on
> plagiarism. At the very least he seems to have changed
> his tune. Now if he only realizes that it is not
> flattery of the original author but of the plagiarist
> himself! We had a good demonstration of this fact,
> ironically, in the present context itself on Goanet,
> just in the past couple of days. Poor Arnoldbab
> Noronha was duped into believing that Kenneth's recent
> post on Goan feni was actually written by him, and he
> unfortunately ended up putting his praise of Kenneth
> in verse.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Santosh

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