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General[Gone] Big old spam hunt. Part XXIX - 840 of 919 Pin
den2k8816-Feb-15 20:44
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Nelek17-Feb-15 10:18
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GeneralQA Spammer Pin
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Generalgone Pin
Nelek17-Feb-15 10:16
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GeneralPossible abuse or plagiarism ? Pin
BillWoodruff16-Feb-15 14:59
professionalBillWoodruff16-Feb-15 14:59 
This 2006 article: [^] lists the author name "CastorTiu," with the statement they are a Microsoft employee: "Currently working as SDE on Failover Clustering team for Microsoft."

Today I downloaded the source-code example from this article: every Form/Control/Assembly is prefaced with the following:

"// Copyright (c) 2006, Gustavo Franco
// Email: gustavo_franco@hotmail.com
// All rights reserved.

// Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
// are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

// Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
// this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
// Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
// this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
// and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

// THIS CODE AND INFORMATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
// KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
// IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND/OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
// PURPOSE. IT CAN BE DISTRIBUTED FREE OF CHARGE AS LONG AS THIS HEADER
// REMAINS UNCHANGED."


The article never mentions the name Gustavo Franco, and seems to me be posted as an original work.

thanks, Bill
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009

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GeneralSpam in B&S Pin
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GeneralSpam would be article Pin
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GeneralSite-driving Spam Pin
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Thomas Daniels16-Feb-15 0:52
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GeneralPlagiarized paragraph in article in moderation queue Pin
Thomas Daniels15-Feb-15 22:39
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GeneralIn Java answer and ... Pin
Richard MacCutchan15-Feb-15 22:00
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GeneralGone Pin
Tom Deketelaere16-Feb-15 4:09
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General[Gone] Big old spam hunt. Part XXVIII - 810 of 919 Pin
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