mjpaci's Journal: I've been robbed!!!

I was browsing around the FAQs for a particular product and read one of their entries that looked eerily similar to something I had written, somewhere on the web recently. As it turns out, the answer to the question in the FAQ was almost a direct copy/paste of an answer I posted in their on-line forums on October 28, 2004. I am pissed. I've already sent them an e-mail asking them if it was their practice to pilfer people's work without citing the original author. Had they taken the concepts of what I wrote, which isn't rocket science, and re-stated it in their own language, I wouldn't care so much. However, THE DID A DRIECT COPY PASTE!!

The offending text from their website:

Open up Terminal.
At the command prompt type ifconfig -a and hit enter.
look for a line under en0 that says:
media: autoselect (100baseTX ****-duplex) status: active.
If the **** says full, disregard. If it say half, then you might have a duplex mismatch with the switch which can cause problems.

My text:

Open up Terminal.
At the command prompt type ifconfig -a and hit enter.
look for a line under en0 that says:
media: autoselect (100baseTX ****-duplex) status: active.
If the **** says full, disregard. If it say half, then you might have a duplex mismatch with the switch which can cause all kinds of weird problems when copying files.

Similarities??????

*GRUMBLE*

I am still mad

[mjpaci]

I am still a bit mad at the wholesale copying of my material. What irks me more is that in the same thread of the forum their tech support posted that they had no idea what the problem could be--10 hours before I posted my comment.

Even more annoying is that in their FAQ they represent this issue as being a Mac-specific problem. Bullshit. I see this everyday at work where we are 99% Windows XP. Sure, the machine will work with a duplex mis-match, but when doing anything with a large copy you will see issues