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- From: karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
- Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX
- Date: 16 Apr 1996 17:05:30 GMT
- Organization: Mindcraft, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4l0k0q$lll@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <4x4tqo2b1d.fsf_-_@bernoulli.enst-bretagne.fr> <4kuc6p$3bt@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <dewar.829628741@schonberg>
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- In article <dewar.829628741@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
- >"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."
- >
- >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.
-
- I'm sure the IEEE would be more willing to give away their standards
- if the US Defense Department were to offer a subsidy that would
- support the IEEE Standards Board.
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- Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com
- (415) 323-9000 x117 karish@pangea.stanford.edu
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