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Good News, Bad News from the U.S. Department of Justice
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First the good news:
SDL announced that "on June 5th 2006, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice closed its investigation into SDL's July 2005 acquisition of Trados, Inc." When we spoke with the DoJ earlier this year, we were told that the agency felt it should look into the acquisition to make sure that there were no violations of U.S. anti-trust law. Apparently it found none in its 5-month investigation.
Back in January we commented that the language tools market was balkanized, less than US$100 million in annual revenue, that long-struggling Trados welcomed the acquisition, and that SDL's acquisition of Trados energized software competitors such as DocZone, Idiom, and others. With this diversion out of the way, SDL's management can focus its attention on the strengthening competition in the translation workflow management market and emerging rivals in desktop and server-based translation memory.
Now for the bad news: A U.S. prosecutor announced that White House insider Karl Rove would be charged with no wrongdoing in the Central Intelligence Agency leak case. This is an instance of where language baffles us, especially in the political arena -- "no wrongdoing" could mean that there was no legal, ethical, or moral breach.
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Keywords: Language policy, Translation |
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