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I guess I must have been asleep over the weekend, but I just picked up on the huge storm of controversy over Microsoft's People Ready campaign and how it paid bloggers to write a whole bunch of empty platitudes about a crappy marketing-drone nothing-phrase "people-ready". Microsoft has once again used dishonest tactics to try and get nice comments and it has once again blown up in their faces. One wonders when they're going to start firing the marketing morons who keep coming up...
I've been meaning to post on this topic for quite some time, and given the plagiarism debacle , I thought now might be ideal. I've seen too many developers fall into the trap of making a stupid ethical mistake. There was the UNISA student trying to con developers on a forum to do his homework. A contractor I knew who billed huge amounts every month and then slipped crates of cool drinks in the boot of his car. In the latest case, an up and coming developer trying to get some extra prestige...