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22-Dec-2010
Plagiarism - not just in software. Today, I found a copy of the well-known Lego™ bricks. Same color, same size, they only don't stick to each other - so no full compatibility, only emulation. As you can probably see from the wear and tear of the copy, it probably won't last nearly as long as the original; the plastic material even has a "cheap" look and feel. 22-Dec-2010 
What happens when a vendor tries to sell its wares in another European Union country, but skims on proper localization? No, this doesn't only happen in software; today, I found a funny example in the supermarket: organic tomatoes from Spain. The simple label contains 7 mistakes: missing umlaut, swapped letters, wrong capitalization, additional letters. Seems like someone quickly jotted down the label information on a piece of paper or fax, but the person that actually created the label knew next to nothing about the German language, and nobody bothered to cross-check.
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