I was recently accused of plagiarism by a web site that is allegedly supported by Quixtar’s IBOAI board members. Here is a direct link (to the connection).

Plagiarism is a pretty strong accusation and if the accusation is untrue, there might be cause for a libel lawsuit.

By the way, the post that I was accused of plagiarizing can be found here and as you can see there is full credit to the author with a link to the original site.

I am not in the mood to accuse anyone of plagiarism, but I would like to point out two links that you might find interesting.

The first link is to Steve Victor’s web site. I believe that Steve Victor is Jody Victor’s son and the Vice President of MarkerNET, Jody Victor’s Quixtar support system.

On this site, there is a quote attributed to Steve Victor:

"Individuals Win Games but TEAMs Win Championships!"
~ Steve Victor

Got it? OK.

The second link I want to point out to you is a link to a motivational poster that you might find interesting.

The poster says the following:

"TEAMWORK:
Individuals win games, but teams win championships"

Copyright PSA Publishing Ltd. 2002

Those quotes look the same to me too. Pretty wild, isn’t it?

Now, I am not one to speculate, but it would certainly be interesting if Jody Victor, "The Voice of Calm" and "a leader in the field of i-commerce…and Board Member and Officer of the Independent Business Owners Association" was linked with a web site that incorrectly accused someone of plagiarism.