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- From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
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- Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX
- Date: 16 Apr 1996 00:27:30 -0400
- Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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- "You still have to buy them from the IEEE. They are reluctant to
- give them away because document sales pay for a significant
- portion of IEEE's support for standards."
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- To me, this is a terrible way to deal with standards. It is very important
- to make standards freely available if they are to have maximum impact.
- This can certainly be achieved, as has been demonstrated by the Ada 95
- ANSI/ISO standard, which is available freely from the net, and can be
- copied by anyone without charge.
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