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Josh Linkner publicly admitted his mistake, offerend to talk it over with Chris, and even changed the text of the article, all within one hour.

Dixon is being a little harsh, I think.

http://www.philco.me/philcosblog/2012/4/6/apologizing-to-chr...

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Nope, no way. Dixon wasn't harsh enough, because he thought it was just a lack of credit, whereas it was actually plagiarism. The reporter took writing that wasn't his that he played off as his own (under his byline, no quotes, no source). Completely unethical and irresponsible for a journalist to do that. The fact that he got in via an e-mail and thought he could just "use" it shows that this reporter has a lot to learn (if that even happened -- I've never met another journalist who would do that, ever).

Agreed. It was a public offense, and the theft of his IP. And really really lazy since a simple Internet search would have returned the article. A public callout is certainly not unwarranted. However I question what would have happened were he not Chris Dixon. He has a solid platform and the community respect to take on a writer for fast company. What about one of the rest of us?

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