Oof, as if there weren't enough reasons to hate a monopolistic and exploitative company.
ramblenode 3 days ago [-]
Kind of a "reverse plagiarism".
It seems to have been purely stylistic, but that's still unacceptable, especially since it broke conventions of the field.
jffhn 3 days ago [-]
Reminds me of this quote from Schopenhauer:
"My curse upon anyone who, in future editions of my works, knowingly changes anything in them, be it a sentence, or even just a word, a syllable, a letter, a punctuation mark."
sam_goody 2 days ago [-]
BTW, I have seen the similar in several older texts.
One example is the Jewish lawbook "Toldos Adam V'Chava"[1]. Although many old religious texts have been reprinted with clear modern typesetting, no-one wanted to re-typeset this until recently because of the curse.
On the plus side, we know exactly what the author wrote 800 years later, even if it is hard to read.
It seems to have been purely stylistic, but that's still unacceptable, especially since it broke conventions of the field.
"My curse upon anyone who, in future editions of my works, knowingly changes anything in them, be it a sentence, or even just a word, a syllable, a letter, a punctuation mark."
One example is the Jewish lawbook "Toldos Adam V'Chava"[1]. Although many old religious texts have been reprinted with clear modern typesetting, no-one wanted to re-typeset this until recently because of the curse.
On the plus side, we know exactly what the author wrote 800 years later, even if it is hard to read.
[1]: https://hebrewbooks.org/10180