IP: Plagiarism? Lets say a judgemental error on the originators part that sent it out and to me

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 13:47:49 -0500
To: farber@cis.upenn.edu

Dave,
  I don't know who these people are that sent you this article, but the
haiku are clearly plagiarized. They were all part of Salon Magazine's Haiku
error message contest early this year.
  You can go to http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal2.html
to see them. It is just wrong to take these haiku and re-send them without
attribution to their source. I have seen these going around unattributed in
other contexts but this is the first time someone has pre-pended the bit
about Sony on it.




At 01:08 PM 11/9/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>
>>>Sony has announced its own computer operating system
>>> now available on its hot new portable PC called the
>>> Vaio. Instead of producing the cryptic error messages
>>> characteristic of Microsoft's Windows 95, 3.1, and DOS
>>> operating systems, Sony's chairman Asai Tawara said,
>>> "We intend to capture the high ground by putting a
>>> human, Japanese face on what has been-until now-an
>>> operating system that reflects Western cultural
>>> hegemony.   For example, we have replaced the
>>> impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with
>>> our own Japanese haiku poetry. The chairman went on to
>>> give examples of Sony's new error messages:
>>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>> A file that big?
>>> It might be very useful.
>>> But now it is gone.
>>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>> The Web site you seek
>>> cannot be located but
>>> endless others exist
>>>
>>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>>
>>> Chaos reigns within.
>>> Reflect, repent, and reboot.
>>> Order shall return.
>>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>> ABORTED effort:
>>> Close all that you have.
>>>You ask way too much.
>>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>> First snow, then silence.
>>> This thousand dollar screen dies
>>> so beautifully.
>>>  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>> With searching comes loss
>>> and the presence of absence:
>>> "My Novel" not found.
>>>  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>> The Tao that is seen
>>> Is not the true Tao, until
>>> You bring fresh toner.
>>>  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>> Windows NT crashed.
>>> I am the Blue Screen of Death.
>>> No one hears your screams.
>>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>> Stay the patient course
>>> Of little worth is your ire
>>> The network is down
>>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>> A crash reduces
>>> your expensive computer
>>> a simple stone.
>>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>>Yesterday it worked
>>> Today it is not working
>>> Windows is like that.
>>> - - - - - - - - - - - - -  - - - - - - -
>>> Three things are certain:
>>> Death, taxes, and lost data.
>>> Guess which has occurred.
>>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>> You step in the stream,
>>> but the water has moved on.
>>> This page is not here.
>>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>> Out of memory.
>>> We wish to hold the whole sky,
>>> But we never will.
>>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>> Having been erased,
>>> The document you're seeking
>>> Must now be retyped.
>>>  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>>> Serious error.
>>> All shortcuts have disappeared.
>>> Screen.  Mind.  Both are blank.
>>>
>>
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>David Farber         
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_____________________________________________________________________
David Farber         
The Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems
University of Pennsylvania 
Home Page: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~farber