Lan Barnes wrote: > On Wed, December 5, 2007 11:50 am, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: >> Gus Wirth wrote: >>> I saw this on the Lazarus developers list and thought it was an >>> interesting tool. >>> >>> Similarity Testing <http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dick/sim.html> >>> >>> In case you need need to know who is copying from whom. >> I find that the best plagiarism detector is a source code repository. >> >> And, as I tell my students, check in early and often. Nothing is better >> for defending *against* charges of plagiarism than a nice rich revision >> history. >> >> I actually had an accusation of plagiarism against two of the students >> in one of my classes. It was very nice to be able to pull the code and >> the revision history and refute it quickly. >> >> Besides--plagiarism is stupid. You can probably buy someone in India to >> actually write the code for you for about 100 dollars or so. >> >> My only defense against that is to make sure that the midterm and final >> are worth enough to penalize that kind of behavior. >> >> -a > > Good poets borrow. Great Poets steal. > - T. S. Eliot > > It amuses me that borrowing is plagerism in college and a best practice in > later life. >
No, later in life it's called copyright violation. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
