Then you're completely full of shit Lew. There isn't a person alive who does woodwork that hasn't taken someone's else's idea and modified a version for his own use. You build a chair, a table whatever, it's design is based exactly or loosely on some other person's design that you've seen. The only difference between me and you is that I don't lie about it while you're completely full of crap.
I guess you've never done a history assignment in school. That's where you read what someone else has written and then say it again in your own words. With your warped thinking, I'd guess you'd classify that as plagiarism. Would that be correct Lew?
Quite obviously, you don't have a clue about the legalities of being a technical writer. A technical writer usually takes legally obtained information given to him or researched by him and rewrites it at the comprehension and interest level for a particular audience. Since the information is owned from beginning to end by the client, he's free to do with what's been written as he pleases including copying, rewriting and distributing it ~ even if it's information created entirely by me. I know for certain fact that information I've previously written has been rewritten, updated and changed a number of times by successive technical writers. And you know what Lew? I'm perfectly fine with that because it's the nature of the business.
Possibly, however your response is just BULL SHIT without any intelligence to back it up.
The alcohol comment was intended to be funny. Obviously, you wouldn't find it so because you appear to have your humour up your ass where you apparently have also placed your head.
Dave