"Songs of the IBM", an orwellian-type songbook for IBM employees, circa 1937

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Post by mactac » Fri, Sep 07, 2012, 12:11 AM UTC

"Songs of the IBM", an orwellian-type songbook for IBM employees, circa 1937
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Re: "Songs of the IBM", an orwellian-type songbook for IBM employees, circa 1937

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Post by olog-hai » Fri, Sep 07, 2012, 12:31 AM UTC

This looks an awful lot like plagiarism. He rewrote Rob Weir's blog post without giving him credit. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4465098

Re: "Songs of the IBM", an orwellian-type songbook for IBM employees, circa 1937

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Post by mactac » Fri, Sep 07, 2012, 12:44 AM UTC

olog-hai wrote: post #2

This looks an awful lot like plagiarism. He rewrote Rob Weir's blog post without giving him credit. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4465098

Source link at bottom.

Re: "Songs of the IBM", an orwellian-type songbook for IBM employees, circa 1937

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Post by shpoonj » Fri, Sep 07, 2012, 12:45 AM UTC

olog-hai wrote: post #2

This looks an awful lot like plagiarism. He rewrote Rob Weir's blog post without giving him credit. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4465098

There is now a tiny link to the original post that simply says "source" and is lost in all the clutter.

Still pretty bad.

Re: "Songs of the IBM", an orwellian-type songbook for IBM employees, circa 1937

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Post by jgeorge » Fri, Sep 07, 2012, 2:55 AM UTC

He's got a much better copy of it than I do, I have a photocopy of an older edition (I want to say 1935 but it's not at hand to check).

Useless bit of trivia: the original OS/2 release included several MIDI sample files in a "media" directory on one of the diskettes. The IBMRALLY.MID file there is a rendition of "Ever Onward, IBM".