“Steve Jobs is a legendary orator with a conversational but magnetic style that is so impressive that books have been written about how to emulate his style,” Matthew Panzarino reports for TNW.
“Recently, the Ukrainian Secretary of National Security and Defense, Raisa Bogatyreva, decided that she loved Steve Jobs’ speech to Stanford in 2005 so much that she would just copy it outright, reports Focus Ukraine,” Panzarino reports. “The apparent plaigarism was outed by the site Ukranian Truth, which has published a set of excerpts from both Jobs’ speech and Bogatyreva’s.”
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Panzarino reports, “We spoke to a translator, Alexander Mankuta, who verified that the speech did in fact bear an uncanny resemblance to the Apple CEO’s. Enough to make it completely obvoius that it was a duplicate.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Raisa, you’re from the Ukraine, not Taiwan, South Korea, or Redmond.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
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