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In article <16...@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> i...@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Moor) writes:
>Last term we found several copies of the same program handed in for a
>first year exercise, the originator had mistyped the word `that' as `taht' in
>a comment. One this was spotted we used find and grep to locate all
>copies. 

>During this search we found copies of sample solutions produced in previous
>years, complete with names of the teaching staff in comments, as these 
>exercises were not set I left them alone, but hoped the guy would come and
>ask for increased disk quota -- `Just remove those stolen files and you'll
> have enough space'

I.  Since we are on the subject of ethics, is it ethical to rummage
through the files in someone else's account?  I think you should have
damned good reason at the very least even if it is your computer.

II.  What is wrong with having copies of last year's solutions?  Is
education a game that you want to win by failing students?  If not,
then why do you object to their learning from old homeworks?

III.  What's wrong with having copies of other people's homework as
long as you hand in original work?

I think MIT had a real good attitude on this.

You were as likely to get copies of last year's work in your class
notes as from a friend.  Bibles (compilations of notes, homework,
tests, and finals) were freely available from almost anyone who had
taken the course before.  We were there to learn using any and all
available methods and sources, including old homework, professors,
upper-classmen, and each other.  Not to play some bizarre dominance
game with professors.
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