| In our brave new information-sharing world, the time to start worrying is when you create something and it isn't plagiarized. A couple of years ago, I wrote a job ad to help the startup I was working at hire programmers. I spent a lot of time getting the words just right to attract the right candidates. And then, shortly after our ad hit the Internet, some other company copied it, nearly verbatim, and started using it to hire exactly the candidates we were trying to reach. [1] And then, a month or so later, I found that the ad copy was making rounds on the usual job sites, having been adopted by a number of recruiters and companies wanting to hire programmers skilled at functional programming. At first, I was angry. But then I realized that plagiarism is the new normal. If you write something and it's on the Internet, it's going to be plagiarized. Unless it's not worth plagiarizing. But that bar is so low that, if you're not hitting it, ... [1] http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2011-07-10-good-enough-to-stea... |