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July 2005

Is plagiarism a cultural issue?

0I’d like to draw your attention to a comment I made over on my InformIT blog. More than once I’ve been burned by a writer from India who plagiarized material. Now I hear that it’s common among programmers, too. With increasing reliance on India programmers, are we creating a monster? Technorati tags: India | plagiarism [...]

The IT budget has no clothes

0Finally someone who calls it like it is. I’ve been arguing for years that people are upgrading software just because they can, and not because they need to. Sure, there are people who can benefit from, say, Office’s integration with XML. (I can’t think of any, but I’m sure they’re out there.) But that doesn’t [...]