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Exchanging Translation memories - Good or bad?
Thread poster: Jarnail Gill
Jarnail Gill
Jarnail Gill  Identity Verified
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Dec 12, 2006

Hi friends, many of you might be working with CAT tools. Fine. They prove so helpful at times especially in large projects where large numbe of sentences are repeated. Problem arises when the client asks us to give TMs along with the translated file. Now in my opinion, your TMs are your intellectual property just like a patented technology. What happens that at a later stage, the client gives a similar job to another translator at a much lower price because they are giving him TMs also which wer... See more
Hi friends, many of you might be working with CAT tools. Fine. They prove so helpful at times especially in large projects where large numbe of sentences are repeated. Problem arises when the client asks us to give TMs along with the translated file. Now in my opinion, your TMs are your intellectual property just like a patented technology. What happens that at a later stage, the client gives a similar job to another translator at a much lower price because they are giving him TMs also which were generated by you. Dont you think you are being taken for a ride? ▲ Collapse
 
Natalie
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FYI Dec 13, 2006

I moved the thread to the Business Issues forum.
 
Claudia Krysztofiak
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Link? Dec 13, 2006

Hi Natalie,

if you move a thread, could you please include the link to its new location?

Thank you very much!
 
Nadia-Anastasia Fahmi
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English to Greek
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Neither good not bad... Dec 13, 2006

This topic has been discussed many times before. You can find the latest discussion here http://www.proz.com/topic/60436, which is quite enlighting.
 


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