Re: New OPL Draft
On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 01:33:46AM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> They are *always* :
> - translated by person who know very little about language he translates to
> ( translator have to know language he translate from only, this can be easily
> fixed by allowing everyone to change a book )
Wrong. Most translators translate to their native language.
> - paid by page (both author and translator, remember paid by line of code
> programers ?)
Not necessarily. I know (and have been involved in) projects where the
pay was a fixed sum regardless of how long the project took or how many
pages the result took. (Well, the projects I have been involved in were
nonfiction but nevertheless...)
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