I'm all for making reading easier on us by condensing it. But this article takes their (rediff.com) entire post, posts it in full and never gives them credit. Why isn't this plagiarism?
Secrets of success from Google co-founder Larry Page
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#22I'm all for making reading easier on us by condensing it. But this article takes their (rediff.com) entire post, posts it in full and never gives them credit. Why isn't this plagiarism?
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#23I'm all for making reading easier on us by condensing it. But this article takes their (rediff.com) entire post, posts it in full and never gives them credit. Why isn't this plagiarism?
So, who is being plagiarized?
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#24I'm all for making reading easier on us by condensing it. But this article takes their (rediff.com) entire post, posts it in full and never gives them credit. Why isn't this plagiarism?
though pg should have posted source link with his note, i dont think that even rediff.com is the copyright owner - to what i understand pg did it in the good faith to help HN readers and that's what it matters ...
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#25# You don't want to be Tesla. He was one of the greatest inventors, but it's a sad, sad story. He couldn't commercialise anything, he could barely fund his own research. You'd want to be more like Edison. If you invent something, that doesn't necessarily help anybody. You've got to actually get it into the world; you've got to produce, make money doing it so you can fund it. The other Edison vs Tesla difference that…
Re: Secrets of success from Google co-founder Larry Page
#26# You don't want to be Tesla. He was one of the greatest inventors, but it's a sad, sad story. He couldn't commercialise anything, he could barely fund his own research. You'd want to be more like Edison. If you invent something, that doesn't necessarily help anybody. You've got to actually get it into the world; you've got to produce, make money doing it so you can fund it. The other Edison vs Tesla difference that…
...kind of like that 37signals design post a few days ago, no?
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#27I'm all for making reading easier on us by condensing it. But this article takes their (rediff.com) entire post, posts it in full and never gives them credit. Why isn't this plagiarism?
However, I have another complaint. Why a plain text file? I don't want to have to download some bloated reader just to read this thing. Can someone print to pdf and upload it to something sensible like scribd?
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#28Seems more like a Google press release than anything sincere. Maybe trying to regain their preferred status among the top talent looking for work during these tumultuous times?
Maybe trying to regain their preferred status among the top talent looking for work Have they lost it? Whom have they lost it to?
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
It sounds like quotes from old interviews.
He mentions that they "just launched Gmail". Guessing 2004? Not sure why it's appearing 5 years later though.
Re: Secrets of success from Google co-founder Larry Page
#30# You don't want to be Tesla. He was one of the greatest inventors, but it's a sad, sad story. He couldn't commercialise anything, he could barely fund his own research. You'd want to be more like Edison. If you invent something, that doesn't necessarily help anybody. You've got to actually get it into the world; you've got to produce, make money doing it so you can fund it. The other Edison vs Tesla difference that…