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- From: emery@grebyn.com (David Emery)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
- Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 18:52:35 -0700
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Message-ID: <emery-1604961852350001@line029.nwm.mindlink.net>
- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <4x4tqo2b1d.fsf_-_@bernoulli.enst-bretagne.fr> <4kuc6p$3bt@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <dewar.829628741@schonberg> <4l0k0q$lll@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <4l0k0q$lll@nntp.Stanford.EDU>, karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU
- (Chuck Karish) wrote:
-
- > 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.
- > --
- >
- > Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com
- > (415) 323-9000 x117 karish@pangea.stanford.edu
-
- The U.S. DoD has paid for a substantial amount of participation within
- the POSIX community, and by no means limited to Ada bindings!
-
- dave
-