Keep in mind the main goal was to spread the message (address & phone!) of an "exit" program for people who want to leave that scene. So those people who want to eventually leave know that they can get help. (It seems peer pressure is very high inside those circles)
From what I read that "attack" was a big talk in the German right wing forums websites... => people now know the Exit program exists => so it worked VERY well.
Hi... me here: At no point it was my intention to claim ownership of this discovery. I simply wanted to share it with our users. I thought (and still think) quoting the author in the first line of the article makes the original source very clear: "I was googling for some Google Chrome documentation today, and discovered a fascinating post by Ilya Grigorik: ". Will now set the Ilya's text in cursive to make it 100% clear.
If claiming ownership is not your intention, you should make it clear by using blockquotes or otherwise setting the quoted text apart from your own observations.
I find it difficult to give you the benefit of the doubt when it looks like you have used text from other sources in the past without giving any attribution at all.
http://blog.alertfox.com/2011/05/myth-by-reporting-infrastru... seems to use text from a HP whitepaper on infrastructure monitoring from 2008, "Five Myths of Infrastructure Monitoring: How End User Monitoring Can Help You Improve Customer Satisfaction".
I remember reading an article by a developer working on audio compression software, where he discussed how hard it was to write compression software without hitting one patent or another. I think without patent protection, music compression would be better that it currently is.
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