<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>I may have had a reaction similar to Valia Kordoni's at the very first moment when I read Stefan's mail, but then I realized that<br></div><br>(a) there is no doubt possible concerning plagiarism <br>
</div>(b) one should side with a victim <br></div>(c) trust in each other is the most important thing for scientific exchange, and any acts than endanger this trust and therefore the open scientific exchange must be publicly discussed. <br>
<br></div>The key feature of the present case is the obvious nature of the violation. We may often hear ideas in a talk, forget about the talk later, and then formulate the same idea later without any bad intention. One would need a careful discussion in this case. But what if, as in the present case, everything is obvious?<br>
<br></div>As a side remark, I fail to see why +/- female plays a role here ...<br><br><div><div><div><br><br><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-03-30 11:31 GMT+02:00 Stephan Oepen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oe@ifi.uio.no" target="_blank">oe@ifi.uio.no</a>></span>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">> I personally feel (from the first moment I read the original message)<br>
> extremely uncomfortable that all this sensitive info is being discussed on<br>
> a mailing list, and we are all implicitly/explicitly being asked to pass<br>
> judgements on the scientific deeds and the quality of such deeds of a<br>
> (female) person, and to take sides.<br>
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</div>+1, oe<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Gisbert Fanselow<br>Linguistics, University of Potsdam<br>Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 23-24<br>14476 Potsdam<br>x331-977 2446 <br>
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