It must be a very specific case of plagiarism considering that the news fully credits you with your full name and the description page links directly to your blog.

http://my-maemo.com/software/applica...to=1350&faq=46

Maybe you should look up some dictionary for what "plagiarism" is? It is using someone's work as your own. If I fully credit you and link directly to the page the news about your new port was QUOTED from then it has as little to do with plagiarism as you have with good manners and civilized relations with other people.

It wasn't an article or a review. It was just a short news about your port. I didn't see any reasons not to quote that ONE SHORT SENTENCE you wrote about it in your blog, or to change it by force to use other wording. I fully credited your quote with your name and URL and that's ENOUGH for a ONE SENTENCE LONG NEWS.

What you think about My-Maemo is your problem. NO, it does NOT aspire to be a "big news site". It is a small site run by a hobbyist with the purpose to offer a Maemo Software catalog for easy browsing, and discussion forums. The other site of mine, My-Symbian, which is the oldest Symbian community site in the Internet launched 11 years ago in 1999, has 130.000 registered forum users, 380.000 posts on the forums (of which over 24.000 are mine) and its small place in Symbian's history as during over half of its existence it was the most popular existing Symbian community site in the Internet. It's less popular now as nothing lasts forever and I'm too old to sacrifice as much time on running it as when I was 25 or 30, but its past achievements make me satisfied quite enough not to feel inferior when talking to Your Majesty Maintainer Of Two Emulator Ports To Maemo.

The only intention of posting the news about your program on My-Maemo was to simply let My-Maemo's 4000 daily visitors know about it. It was meant to PROMOTE it. My-Maemo does not make any money on it, and that small revenue from ads (hardly anyone clicks these days) does not even cover the traffic costs.

I didn't expect to be thanked for posting that news, but I definitely didn't expect to be that insulted (a thief and plagiarist), either.

It didn't make sense to change/rephrase that ONE SENTENCE LONG blog entry of yours because it simply was a single sentence saying merely that the emulator "has a faster engine than PCSX but slower disk access". If quoting just that (with fully crediting you) is a theft and plagiarism then you're out of your mind.

Last but not least, I preferred to rely on a quote from your blog entry rather than an opinion of mine simply because I don't own a Playstation and hence I don't have any PSX software to try the emulator myself with, while I do NOT use illegal copies downloaded from the Internet. If you do then it is YOU who's a thief, not me.

I already wrote all the above in my reply to your email, but I see that it wasn't enough for you and you feel the need to further insult me in public.

All I can say is: boy, rethink your attitude. Insulting people and calling them thieves and plagiarists in public only speaks about what kind of person YOU are. Just porting several nice pieces of software does NOT give you the right to spit at people whose only intention was to promote your ports.

Your hostile and rude behaviour is the more sad for me that you are my compatriot and I'd expect fellow Maemo fans from my country to be more civilized than that.

Having spent last 11 years running a crowded community site I've seen a lot, but it always makes me sad when I see how some people find it easy to offend and defame others like that, for no reason.

Cheers,
Michal Jerz
My-Maemo.com & My-Symbian.com