IT students and consulting companies be warned: stop plagiarising
"Outsourcing and contracting out of IT products and services" issued 6
August 1997 by the Australian Computer Society
<http://www.acs.org.au/president/1997/outsrc/paper.htm#RTFToC4>.
A lecturer at a university became suspicious over a student project, did a
web search and found the material was from the ACS paper. But they also
found it used in a US consulting company's web site describing their
services. I did a search and found another US company which appears to have
copied it from the first company.
A group of students at a HK university also seemed to have copied slabs of
the ACS document. The student's work was in a MS Word document and I guess
they felt safe, but web search engines now index these.
I have written to the organisations concerned asking politely for them to
attribute the material or face more formal action.
If you are going to plagiarize, don't put the result on the web and don't
use something which has been submitted in evidence to the Australian Senate
<http://www.acs.org.au/president/1997/outsrc/outsrcpr.htm>. ;-)
Tom Worthington FACS tom.worthington@tomw.net.au Ph: 0419 496150
Director, Tomw Communications Pty Ltd ABN: 17 088 714 309
http://www.tomw.net.au PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617
Visiting Fellow, Computer Science, Australian National University
Publications Director & Past President, Australian Computer Society
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