Reading through the pages of the FD last week I discovered a juicy story. Something about a lawsuit between All Options and Euronext. Actually, it was the very same story published a week earlier on this website. Translated in Dutch, processed through the notorious Conijn-o-generator (usually stuff about flags) and a few small mistakes introduced. But definitely the same entire story published over here on amsterdamtrader.
A good thing about the oldskool journalists of the pen-and-paper era is they’re easy to reach. Working from nine-to-five in the office, the journalist turned out to be a very friendly chap. He immediately confessed. He was inspired by the story on Amsterdamtrader.com, although he denied straight copying a story. After all, he checked the sources to confirm everything was true so there was actually some work involved for him. Giving credits where credit’s due was a still little difficult story, but he’ll work on that.