Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Lionbridge PMs can "detect" the use of SDL over their proprietary CAT tool?
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: Possibly only "free" via sub-sub-sub-contractors
[quote]Maurits Meulenbelt wrote:
Lionbridge’s tools should be available for free for freelancers. See this link on their Partner Portal... [/quote]
The only times I had been able to get free access to Lionbridge's utilities were in situations where I worked for pass-through or middle-men agencies who had bought one or two licenses for themselves, whose login credentials they then share among all their freelancers. I'm not sure if this is against LionBridge's rules somehow, but it happens often enough.
A number of my clients are pass-through agencies (or I suspect that they are) -- towards the upstream agency, they claim to be e.g. an English-German translator, negotiate long deadlines, and then pass the work to their freelancers, and when they get the work back, they run all kinds of QA checks on it to reduce their risk, and submit the work to the upstream agency as their own work. Or: they tell the upstream agency that they're a translation office (i.e. that they have English-German translators working in their office) and presumably have a software license for their "office", when in fact they just work with freelancers all over the world. I'm not sure if this is against LionBridge's rules -- but I'm sure the guys over at LionBridge are not stupid and they know how the world works.
Topic: Lionbridge PMs can "detect" the use of SDL over their proprietary CAT tool?
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: Possibly only "free" via sub-sub-sub-contractors
[quote]Maurits Meulenbelt wrote:
Lionbridge’s tools should be available for free for freelancers. See this link on their Partner Portal... [/quote]
The only times I had been able to get free access to Lionbridge's utilities were in situations where I worked for pass-through or middle-men agencies who had bought one or two licenses for themselves, whose login credentials they then share among all their freelancers. I'm not sure if this is against LionBridge's rules somehow, but it happens often enough.
A number of my clients are pass-through agencies (or I suspect that they are) -- towards the upstream agency, they claim to be e.g. an English-German translator, negotiate long deadlines, and then pass the work to their freelancers, and when they get the work back, they run all kinds of QA checks on it to reduce their risk, and submit the work to the upstream agency as their own work. Or: they tell the upstream agency that they're a translation office (i.e. that they have English-German translators working in their office) and presumably have a software license for their "office", when in fact they just work with freelancers all over the world. I'm not sure if this is against LionBridge's rules -- but I'm sure the guys over at LionBridge are not stupid and they know how the world works.