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 >> Are you saying that a company with IBM's resources was using "SEs working in
 >> their spare time" to do translations??

That is my understanding - yes.  But IBM's level of resource is not really
relevant.  They did it because it produced the best translations that money
could buy.  They switched to professional translation services to _save_ money!

I suspect that SEs were used part-time because anyone with the technical
knowledge to do the job would be bored to death doing it full time.  A similar
situation applies to regular manuals.  IBM has some great technical writers, but
they are (for the most part) not AS/400 literate.  People with the AS/400 skills
would not be prepared to write manuals full time.


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