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by fabiensanglard
15 hours ago
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> perhaps this is all sanctioned In short, it is not. I received early draft from bas. While I encouraged him to finish his book, I also told him, in no uncertain terms, that I had released the source code to inspire people and give them a kickstart, but not for them to copy the content. As months passed, I asked repeatedly to remove whole paragraphs he had copy/pasted as is, and drawings he had also copy/pasted. Later, as A.I became more powerful, I used it to compare Wolfenstein 3D and Keen book and noticed a lot more that was verbatim. At which point I told him I no longer wanted to help him in his project. It is cool that someone documented Keen thanks to my framework. But I have only myself to blame for opensourcing the code of my books/website and thinking people would use it as intended. PS: I commented it was a "good idea" to change the cover because originally this was going to be the "Game Engine Black Book: Commander Keen". I did not like that his work could have been mistaken for mine (he also elected to use the same style as my website for his website which only adds to the confusion). |
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The author has clearly put quite some investment in writing their book, it's a shame and hard to understand that someone would self sabotage by plagiarising the work of others - Especially to someone donating their own free time to initially help out.
> But I have only myself to blame for opensourcing the code of my books/website and thinking people would use it as intended.
Even if you had not, perhaps this scenario would have still eventuated.
Keep up the good work. Any new books planned on the horizon?