Re:Seriously, what’s up with old media not crediting bloggers?
by webmink on Saturday April 07, 2012 @11:17AM
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I wrote the article you're complaining about, which is actually mainly about making hybrid PDFs. I did not see your article, let alone copy it; I would have linked to it if I had. I have been working on that piece for a few months off-and-on and pitched it as a "lightning talk" at FLOSS UK Spring 2012 in Edinburgh beforehand.
More than that, I was a manager of the team that created the hybrid PDF feature in OpenOffice at Sun, and have been advocating avoiding editable attachments for years - the earliest I can find on my blog is http://www.webmink.net/2003/07/feature-creep.htm but I am pretty sure I was advocating it before.
The web is a big place where there are often people working on the same ideas as you (which is why software patents are a travesty), and I recommend avoiding accusing people of incompetence without a little more research.
Re:Seriously, what’s up with old media not crediting bloggers?
by contrarian on Saturday April 07, 2012 @10:59AM
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Actually he presented this at a conference in Edinburgh called FLOSSUK a while before he wrote the article, and since he's one of the people who was involved in making OpenOffice happen he probably knew about it a long time before you did :-) These things happen,
A couple days later, this guy wrote about the same exact thing, bringing up the same exact arguments as I did (his link: http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2012/03/the-magi...).
He posted about a week after me. I didn't really do anything about it, but he could have at least mentioned where he got the idea/information. Incompetence.