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> we think Simmons has opened up a completely new front in the never-ending war against plagiarists that look to profit off of the work of others We’ve been do
by chomp 3y ago
> we think Simmons has opened up a completely new front in the never-ending war against plagiarists that look to profit off of the work of others
We’ve been doing stuff like this since the early 00s, this isn’t new stuff.
- varelse 3y agoI once had a manager at my dad's company steal my code for my opus Star Trek game. He left tracks so I followed those tracks into his account and made the game absolutely no fun to play by making it impossibly hard (1979). He then had the nerve to complain to my dad that the game was too hard.
- thwarted 3y agoAh, the Reverse Kobayashi Maru.
- CM30 3y agoYep, I've seen quite a few sites do that. I think one of them even does that for people who access their content from Hacker News.
- SonOfLilit 3y agoIndeed. Don't click HN links to https://www.jwz.org https://www.jwz.org at work.
- pwdisswordfishc 3y ago[flagged]
- geraldhh 3y agowhen, where? must have missed that one while changing diapers
- SonOfLilit 3y agoApparently four months ago at least: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36227103 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36227103