> In short, I was disturbed by the vendor's lack of acknowledgement,
> especially when the concept and activity seem to be directly borrowed from
> anothers work--and results in a commercial product Am I overreacting?
> What do you think???
1. Would you feel comfortable with the vendor if he or she simply
acknowledged all the references? If you feel uneasy with the vender's
ethics then you should never buy from them until that unease is cleared up
but I suspect you are uneasy with more than acknowledgments.
2. Venders are selling to your needs which, unfortunately, they may not
correctly guess or research. I spent five years selling training to mid
sized businesses who didn't give a tinker's darn about my work. They
mostly wanted a watered down version of Senge/Covey/Drucker/You Name It.
The frustration I encountered in that pursuit certainly convinced me why
so many venders cut and paste instead of creating.
-- Lon Badgett lonbadgett@aol.com "Depending on your perspective, borrowing the words of others can be anything from imprisonable plagiarism to award winning research. I don't think there is one reader among us who has not at one time or another thought , "I sure wish I had said that", when reading a great quote. Personally, I never met a quote from Will Rogers that I didn't like." Emil Gobersneke, from The Gullible AmericanLearning-org -- Hosted by Rick Karash <rkarash@karash.com> Public Dialog on Learning Organizations -- <http://www.learning-org.com>