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Hounded By Recruiters, Coders Put Themselves Up For Auction
An anonymous reader writes "When Pete London posted a resume on LinkedIn in December 2009, the JavaScript specialist stumbled into a trap of sorts. Shortly after creating a profile he received a message from a recruiter at Google. Just days later, another from Mozilla. Facebook reached out the next month and over the course of the next two years, nearly every big name in tech – attempt to lure him to a new employer. He received 530 messages in all, or one every 40 hours ... the only problem? Pete London didn't exist."
Copyright isn't the issue. Quoting from copyrighted content is fair use.
Plagiarism, on the other hand, is trying to pass off someone else's work as your own.
In this case, the summary says "an anonymous reader writes..." when the actual author is not anonymous and not the submitter of the story.
Heck, at the very least put "J.J. Colao writes for Forbes..." That would be honest, but this is just shitty journalism.
You must be mentally impaired or trolling, or this is your first time ever on slashdot. It's not journalism at all so saying it's "shitty journalism" is not relevant. An anonymous reader wrote in that there was a story on another site and provided a summary. This tips off the Slashdot users to go comment without reading the article or sometimes without even reading the summary. One or two users will actually read both and have a bit of sport trolling the group that did not. It's a cycle.