Well, that's one way to avoid a plagiarism charge -- translate to gibberish and back!
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 6:51 PM, Mike Myers <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike: > > Interesting that you bring that up. I was working at the IBM Poughkeepsie > lab at the time and was charged with comparing Fujitsu documentation with > the IBM equivalent manuals. I don't recall which specific manuals those > were, but I do remember that the English version seemed to be written by a > non-English speaking person (at least for a first language), but that the > contents of the paragraphs appeared in the same order as our (IBM) manuals. > Looked like a really poor example of plagiarism. As you say, there were a > lot of good laughs and I wish I too had saved some of those manuals. I > don't recall what came from the results of our study (probably some > ineffective lawsuits), as I soon got reassigned to something more > interesting, like the design of Data In Virtual. > > Mike Myers > Mentor Services Corporation > > On 02/23/2017 09:43 AM, Mike Cairns wrote:One of the funniest things I > recall was attempting to understand the documentation. I wish I had kept > some of the old manuals just for a laugh. Apparently they had been > translated from the IBM documentation into Japanese, and then translated > back into English. They were both awful, difficult to read and understand, > and sometimes very funny in the poorly translated phrases that appeared > regularly. > > I also recall that there was a serious dispute between my then employer >> and IBM, which led to the buying of Fujistu at the time. IBM tried to get >> the decision reversed. The story I heard was that the local head of IBM >> took the government minister responsible for the organisation out for a >> round of golf together... This may have been just be a rumour though, the >> people involved are long ago retired. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
