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ITC vs Gstarsoft

One of the things that will place the IntelliCAD Technical Consortium in the history book of CAD is how the organization helped launch dozens of AutoCAD workalikes. They use the IntelliCAD code provided by the ITC. Some of the strongest members, however, flew the coop by rewriting their code to remove all traces of material copywritten by the ITC.To get more news about Gstarsoft Tips & Tricks, you can visit shine news official website.

using IntelliCAD as the base for its GstarCAD software. But then in 2013, the company launched GstarCAD8, a new CAD platform based on "hundreds of engineers and three years of development.

This is not new. Bricsys was the first to do this, transitioning away from IntelliCAD with BricsCAD 8 and 9. More recently, ZWSOFT did the same, their rewrite resulting in ZWCAD+. Both Bricsys and ZWSOFT say their releases have no copied IntelliCAD code.

It appears, however, that the ITC is not convinced that Gstarsoft's new platform is entirely free of IntelliCAD code. The organization this month launched a law suit against the software company. (See press release.) To learn more about the situation, I interviewed both sides: Shawn Lindsay, legal counsel for the ITC, and Meiyu Huang, vice president of Suzhou Gstarsoft.
We expect to conduct an audit [of the software code] and, depending on what we find there, it could be that we add to our claims.

Meiyu Huang: We withheld the membership fee for 2015 as a direct consequence of this dispute. Until this year, we always paid, and paid on time. In fact, we paid membership fees even though we were no longer using the IntelliCAD code in our software.

We are not refusing an audit, we just want the process to be clear. The word 'audit' is very bad in the Chinese market, where people could ask, "Why is Gstarsoft being audited before another Chinese member who also developed their own CAD platform, earlier than Gstarsoft?" We require a fair auditing process to avoid unnecessary damage in the Chinese domestic market. It is natural for us to have such a concern.