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Comment on Dr. Lance Chambers (Scumbag) Sells Cheat Sheets (Updated)

Comment by Dave Child ( http://www.addedbytes.com )

Thanks Steve! It's rather cool seeing one's own name on Wikipedia :)

Comment on Dr. Lance Chambers (Scumbag) Sells Cheat Sheets (Updated)

Comment by Steve Trutane ( http://trutane.blogspot.com )

I added a reference to the Wikipedia page for cheat sheets, citing Dave as an example of freely available cheat sheets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheat_sheet

That page also has a reference to the "academic dishonesty" Wikipedia page, which might be an appropriate area to cite this Lance Chambers story. ;)

Seriously, this is an interesting case of web-enabled plagiarism/copyright infringement that would be good to publicize. Raises some key issues that many netizens should be aware of.

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Comment by Bjorn ( http://www.evelop.co.za )

This is absolutely ridiculous!

I am actually at a loss for words. Lance actually posted on here trying to justify what he was doing...I really don't know what to say.

Dave, you definately handled it well and put him in his place.

Thanks once again for all your hard work on these cheat sheets!

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Comment by Ed ( http://blog.tn38.net/ )

Proactively, there's not much you can do about it but reactively there's a slim chance of contacting the purchaser before the feedback is posted.

A negative like "This guy rips off works that are available freely; just use Google and you'll find all this and more." might just stem the sales.

Problem is, it needs an eBay taskforce.

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Comment by Gavin ( )

Report these guys to the eBay fraud department and get them banned from the site. That will stop them for a while.

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Comment by Thomas Finley ( )

Another guy is selling your sheets (k-net2020). He's in the UK.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Cheat-Sheets-PHP-MySQL-CSS-Javascript-HTML-more_W0QQitemZ150015959381QQihZ005QQcategoryZ4291QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Comment on Dr. Lance Chambers (Scumbag) Sells Cheat Sheets (Updated)

Comment by Steven Bao ( http://www.stevenbao.com/ )

This Lance Chambers is an asshole, and he should die in a fiery pit.

"Okay so I'm selling (not the cheat sheets themselves) but rather asking people to pay AUD$1.50 (less than an English pound and about US1.00) for the work I have undertaken to find and e-mail the sheets to them - not much I admit but maybe worth the one dollar?"

How about you just go on eBay and sell a copy of Linux - only when the bidder wins you go and email them a link to download it for themselves. Okay, so you're selling (not the Linux distribution itself) but rather asking people to pay however much you ask for, for the work you have undertaken to find and email the Linux distribution download to them - not much you admit but maybe worth it?

Go to hell.

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Comment by Drakas ( )

Jeez, this feels so crappy.

Dave has done so much work and some guy is just selling it off...
I understand the thing that there still are a lot of noobs who cannot use Google to find how to learn PHP -- but why just resell, as if it was yours?!
You could at least ask.

"AUD$1.50 (less than an English pound and about US1.00) for the work I have undertaken to find and e-mail the sheets to them - not much I admit but maybe worth the one dollar?"
You call that work?? Wait, this is more like writing an email in 20 seconds, isn't it?

This is even too much.
You're a fool, Lance!
Sell your own work, ok?

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Comment by bev ( http://www.theperfectdietbook.com )

I came here because a friends was asking a HTML question and I have used the cheat sheets when designing my site. Why? Because when I was hitting a problem with php I did a search with google and got this site up as NO 1. The name was interesting but I came and bookmarked it and have used it since. It is an easy site to navigate and teaches us simple minded people in simple English.
I can't believe someone would nick your sheets and sell them. Seems there is another person selling them on ebay UK saying that it is for laminating and postage as the cheat sheets are free on the web. You might want to look at that one as well.
I for one would willingly pay for the sheets but only from this site because of the work gone into them. I really appreciate all your hard work, and it sucks that someone would rip you off.

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Comment by Kevin Futter ( http://www.klp.com.au/ )

Interesting to note that the sale that Dave's link points to now returns an 'invalid item' page from eBay, stating that it has been removed (though only generic reasons are given, eg the auction ended more than 90 days ago).

I thought maybe eBay had finally acted, but a quick search shows the cheat sheets are still for sale, and somewhat inconceivably, Lance's feedback is still at 100%. I couldn't be bothered conducting exhaustive checking, but a couple of his latest sales that I checked were not for cheat sheets. Perhaps nobody's really fooled.