Laurent is actively participating to the Microsoft .NET community for a while through his very well-known French information portal “Tech Head Brothers“. Microsoft has recognized his high competence and active participation to the spreading of the .NET technology with a Most Valuable Professional title since April 2002.

The management of this kind of community website is very time intensive, as you know. The content of the site is copyrighted in a simple way, not to generate money, but to keep the control of the content. A simple contact, a link to the original article and it’s already over. Simple, isn’t it?

Now, Laurent tells us in one of his post (English) that Mr. Patrice Harmegnies just copied one of Laurent’s article (in French) on his own website, without taking contact with him, without mentionning the author, without linking to the original article. Sorry, but that really sucks!

Patrice Harmegnies seems to be an IT professional and a teacher in the field of web technology….

Mr. Harmegnies, what for a dishonesty and impoliteness! Please respect first the work of the other people… Be a little more respectful with professionals who *really* participate to this kind of communities, who *really* invest time in sharing their know-how and please avoid to make this kind of shitty copy… Definitely ridiculous.