code_thievery.txt

> JimBastard: "If you question the legitimacy or ownership 
> of any of my projects..."

Well, let's do just that. JimBastard, aka Marak Squires, has a long 
history of self-promoting projects that he's either stolen outright 
from other programmers, or simply wrapped and called his own. 
You'll often find him promoting his "work", so watch this video 
before continuing: 

http://www.youtube.com/nodejitsu#p/a/u/0/eRISZCk4IE0

So it pays to be aware of who you're dealing with.


Exhibit A: Let's start with the theft of Asciimo. 

http://patorjk.com/blog/2010/06/21/asciimo/

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ch87a/asciimo_where_have_i_seen_this_before_oh_wait/


Exhibit B: Marak's PDF.js is a blatant copy-and-paste ripoff of 
jsPDF, including comments:

https://github.com/Marak/pdf.js/blob/master/lib/pdf.js

http://code.google.com/p/jspdf/source/browse/trunk/jspdf.js


Exhibit C: Marak's jquery.DataSelector.js is a copy-and-paste theft 
from James Padolsey's blog post "Extending jQuery's Selector 
Capabilities":

https://github.com/Marak/jquery.dataSelector.js/blob/master/jquery.dataSelector.js

http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/extending-jquerys-selector-capabilities/


Exhibit D: At least he leaves inimino's name at the top of the 
comments for this one:

https://github.com/Marak/session.js/blob/master/session.js


Exhibit E: The bullshit wrappers around external projects and other 
people's work. 

Marak's Gemini is simply the stdlib EventEmitter from Node.js 
copied-and-pasted (including comments), with a bit of "TODO" code 
surrounding it.
https://github.com/Marak/gemini.js/blob/master/lib/gemini.js

His "say.js" is just a shell-out to the Mac's "say" command.
https://github.com/Marak/say.js/blob/master/lib/say.js

His "response.js" project is 15-line monkey-patch to Node's 
ServerResponse:
https://github.com/Marak/response/blob/master/lib/response.js


I could go on, but I don't think there's any need. You can take
a look at his other projects for yourself, and see that they're
not really any work of his. It's important for open-source 
developers to have at least a modicum of ethical behavior. 
Hopefully, he won't just delete these repos and try to bury the 
issue. An apology would be nice.