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[QUOTE]Originally posted by George Harris: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [qb] Mr. Harris, I'll take a bye on that invitation. We're largely, if not all, college graduates around here; and starting as Freshmen on campus, it was drilled into us how much a "mortal sin" was plagiarism. [/qb][/QUOTE]Funny thing, if you write specifications, almost the opposite is true. If it has proven to get the right products and is understood by the contractors and gotten past the contractor's lawyers looking for holes to shoot you through, you use it. Likewise, it seems that college literature professors love complexity and ambiguity. The opposite is true with specifications, and for that matter most other professional writing. You want to be clear and simple and avoid anything that can lead to more than one interpretation and conclusion. One of the thoughts in specification writing is similar to my father's concerning buying a new car: Do not buy a new car model the first year it is out. If you like it, wait until the second or third year so that the manufacturer will have found and fixed the bugs that only show up after the model is on the street. The equivalent in specifications is when mooching off a specification for the same type work, use what has been through construction by a contractor so that the holes are known and can be filled. I could go on for a while on some of the things that have happened due to lack of clarity in specifications, but I will quit here. Anyway, just saying that in the engineering word, plagarization is considered by many to be complimentary. Might as well. There are usually no copyright issues involved. In public works the plans and specifications are usually the property of the owner if not completely public information, so that the engineer that developed them has no control of reuse of anything not patented. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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