[Corpora-List] concordance program for large files

[Francis Tyers]

El mié, 03-09-2008 a las 17:33 +0200, Max Silberztein escribió:
> 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.

If they stole the code, they stole the code. Nobody is condoning that.

My arguments are only valid for work-the-same or work-a-like programs
where the code has been written from scratch.

Fran


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