(day three) - your opinion on the new design needed

[burns]

On April  4, 2002 07:08 am, M.W.Chang wrote:
> What if the submission agreement covers the liability of copyright
> infrongement. Holy cow, that would really be horrible. Will you submit
> something? Nah.. you won't take the risk.
>
> Also, I doubt whether these U-professors really know whether an old was
> actually an old idea repackaged. They couldn't possibly knew all old
> ideas. Seems that it's all about timing. If person A published an
> article first, he/she might sue anyone who made simliar article
> afterward.
>
> My classmate was acreeditted a PhD (by local authority), but I never
> quite knew what his thesis was talking about, let alone judging whether
> it's innovative in the field.
>
> > But then again, what do I know...?... Kurt and David B.
> > are better equipped than I am at this sort of thing.
> > But then again, as someone else stated, none of us are writing a thesis
> > to become a Rocket Doctor.
>

At one of our universities in Ottawa, about 40 people recently were suspended 
when they were caught submitting things copied from the Internet as if it 
were their own work... the class was an ethics class in the Engineering 
school!

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burns