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by efes 3700 days ago
“busted” for using code that works without introducing bugs to show you understood It... Whether, let alone how, they violated the license is not a subject of the article. Expecting code review to detect plaigarism is.. Writing code is editing an encyclopedia, not writing poetry.
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If using code from Stack Overflow is plagiarism, then something something glass houses.

Expecting code review to detect obviously-wrong placeholder text, however, is pretty reasonable.

If we are supposed to be the last line of defense against poor English in products on the US market then that explains a lot.