The software awards scam

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So your software won an award, did ya? Then read this

*successfulsoftware.net/2007/08/16/the-software-awards-scam/

OMG, really?
This reminds me of another incident that happened, in MIT, where doctoral students designed a software to write a journal given certain keywords and title. Yes, the software will write a journal with bombastic words and generate graphs and stuff, it seems. They submitted to a journal and they accepted!!!
Crazy ppl.

legolas said:
OMG, really?
This reminds me of another incident that happened, in MIT, where doctoral students designed a software to write a journal given certain keywords and title. Yes, the software will write a journal with bombastic words and generate graphs and stuff, it seems. They submitted to a journal and they accepted!!!
Crazy ppl.

what is that software?????

I'm moree interested

Fantastic report. I usually only download from sites like Cnet's download.com and tucows.net