"Khedr, Waleed" wrote:
>
> As long he is keeping the names of authors on the paper, I do not believe
> it's a big crime.
>
> Regards,
>
> Waleed
>
Not if it is the original author. I have had the bad surprise of finding
a lot of stuff pumped out of our site supposedly submitted by myself -
embarrassing, isn't it?
It actually depends on why people put interesting stuff on a site. If
it's for self-promotion (consulting, etc.) I fully agree with you,
although I also agree with (who was it? Rachel? Gaja?) that it would be
nicer to ask. If the purpose is to bring people to the site to sell them
something, it's a different matter and it would be fairer to put a link
to the site.
That said, I do not see a bulgarian or latvian site as primarily a
'copyright haven' but as a site in a country where the usual 40/50 $ you
have to pay for a computer book in the US are an unaffordable luxury,
and where good papers have all the more value. I think that more effort
should be done to translate good papers in the most spoken languages
(Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, Russian), and anybody willing to do this with
papers from our site would have my blessing. All the more or less fluent
English speakers (or scribblers) from this list may not realise it, but
many DBAs have a lot of trouble making sense of the doc, even when it's
not about global prefixed partitioned indexes. And the Oracle support
policy? Bye-bye hotline, help yourself on Metalink. Ah, yes, just a
snag: it's all in English (or something looking like it).
Regards,
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