From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 6 8:41:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DFC637B407 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 08:41:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA16232; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 09:41:14 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010706093248.04533cf0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 09:40:59 -0600 To: Rahul Siddharthan From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Plagiarism (Was: FreeBSD spokesman) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20010706173117.N99228@lpt.ens.fr> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010706090739.045bc340@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010703141550.045f5340@localhost> <20010705123729.M371@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010705125211.04638740@localhost> <20010705224626.O47721@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010705163434.04524b00@localhost> <20010706103808.A99228@lpt.ens.fr> <20010706151421.I99228@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010706071808.04536ef0@localhost> <20010706170429.M99228@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010706090739.045bc340@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 09:31 AM 7/6/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >[Greg] abided by perfectly adequate attribution standards for this medium. Not so. Daemon News is a technical journal that also appears in print. >Despite my lack of respect for Webster, Argumentum ad hominem again. >I still assume that the authors are consistent and don't >change the meaning of a verb mid-sentence. Again, see the Merriam-Webster definition online. >You're just arguing in circles, No, Rahul, YOU are. Your arguments have been so weak that you've now resorted to arguing ad hominem against authoritative sources such as Webster's dictionary and the MLA Manual. You are apparently unwilling, at any cost, to admit that you did not know the full meaning of the word "plagiarism." I think I've proved to the satisfaction of any resonable person that what Greg did crossed well over the line, and that he owes me, at the very least, an apology. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message