Monday 3 November 2014

Plagiarism

This page is written in response to the lies that +Phil Daintree has written about me, and spread on the internet. Despite years of searching he has been unable to find anything I have written that is untrue, and he has had to resort to vague generalities, faked emails, and badly fabricated screenshots (you can see the joins if you zoom in using any bit mapped image editor). +Phil Daintree is welcome to make any comments to these pages, as he has done in the past. If I agree with what he says I will amend my writings, if I do not agree I have allowed his comments to stand next to mine so that people can make their own judgements. I have every confidence in the intelligence of readers to make a sensible judgement based on the facts. +Phil Daintree will not allow me the right of reply to any of the lies he has told about me. It seems to me significant that he realises that if people see both sides of the argument they will see through his lies.

In the world of open source software a lot of emphasis must be placed on honesty and trust. You have to be able to trust that when you submit code to the administrator of a project that the code is released under the correct license and that is correctly accredited to you. This accreditation is not a question of ego but of common decency and of honesty.

Whenever code gets added to KwaMoja I go to great lengths to attribute the code to the correct author as can be seen here

All the work we do in KwaMoja is made available to the webERP project, however recently the project admin +Phil Daintree has been consistently attributing the work to himself rather than to the actual author.

For instance +Fahad Hatib did some considerable work to remove the $db variable throughout the code base, and I personally made that available to +Phil Daintree.

This work was committed to webERP here. Instead of correctly attributing that work to +Fahad Hatib Phil decided to claim the credit for this work to himself:


Unfortunately this seems to be typical of the recent dishonest behaviour of the leadership of the webERP project.

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