throwaway234970

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   by throwaway234970 8y ago

   You're missing the point / haven't read my other comment- in the context of academia plagiarism amounts to stealing. Sure, there's nothing that's legally preventing you from copying code and passing it off as your
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   by throwaway234970 8y ago

   As an addendum, it should be noted that reputation and money are not unrelated, and that when stealing ideas from other labs and taking credit for them, scientists are effectively putting on a false show for funders that can increase their
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   by throwaway234970 8y ago

   Yes, there is a difference, but that's because academia is not industry. Since academia's main goal is to publicize findings rather than keep them secret, plagiarism is the academic analogue of stealing "industrial secrets&q
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   by throwaway234970 8y ago

   Also posting as a throwaway for similar reasons. This comment brings up a valid point. When I was working in academia, a lab from $large_and_famous_west_coast_university copied some code from a set of open source scripts from another lab i