Posted by John Tieso on May 17, 1999 at 10:50:20:

In Reply to: An Open Letter to the Knowledge Management Community posted by Yogesh Malhotra, Ph.D. on April 29, 1999 at 19:45:19:

Yogesh:

It seems like years ago that you still had the site at Pitt and we at DoD were creating the "Electronic College of Process Innovation". Since that time, we are probably the most often quoted sources in literally thousands of web sites--you even more than DoD now that the College has not been updated since I left in 1997.

The development of the web and freedom with which people can grab information and use it long before it can be detected is appalling. Several of my pieces, including one part of my book not yet published, is already on the web and being quoted--in two cases without attribution.

How does it stop? Unfortunately, the answer is that the cat is out of the bag and people see the web as a vast library that they can use--and reuse.

Several years ago, I heard an eminent tech guru say "There is no longer any such thing as plagiarism--it is called reuse."

Best regards,

JohnT

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