[Corpora-List] concordance program for large files

[Max Silberztein]

Obviously it is impossible to prove that they used the copy/paste command. However, there are clues that they had full access to INTEX's whole source and resources while "designing" (their word) Unitex. The least technical ones:

-- INTEX was sold by ASSTRIL (the same guys). How could they sell it without my knowing, and yet be able to generate the right decryption license keys for their customers to run INTEX?

-- You really need to check out the analysis report on the "similarities" between the two pieces of software, manuals, file formats and linguistic resources at:

http://mshe.univ-fcomte.fr/intex/Unitex.htm

If you don't read French, at least check out the screen shots, for instance of the Sentence graph (search for section "2.4.2 Découpage en phrases (p. 13)"): a few weeks of work, just stolen. Do you really believe the Unitex graph was "designed" to be compatible with INTEX, rather than just copied? by the way the comments "regle #1", "regle #2", etc. are references to the INTEX manual; why would Unitex contain links to INTEX's manual?

-- half a dozen features of INTEX are exactly the same in Unitex, even though they no longer make any sense in a Unicode environment. For instance, INTEX which is based on 8-bit ASCII, needs functions to deal with alphabetical order, accented and foreign letters; why are these functions even exist in a Unicode Unitex ? don't they know about Char.IsALetter () ? how come they ended up writing C functions with the same names as INTEX's if they did not have access to INTEX's source?

-- etc. (there are other funny clues)

Just in case you wonder how they could do it and even capitalize on it, really big time: in the French academic world,  a researcher has no right on his/her work, which it is owned by his university solely. Therefore he/she cannot defend himself/herself legally. And French universities do not sue other French universities, because they are all state-controlled by the same minister. And then some researchers just love open software so much that they don't want to know! There is also the big-CNRS-vs-little-provincial-lab thing. And other considerations. Checkmate.

--Max



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