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- From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
- Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX
- Date: 16 Apr 1996 16:42:57 -0400
- Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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- Chuck said
-
- "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."
-
- Here Chuck I am afraid you are wandering into areas you don't know about :-)
- DoD has provided absolutely no subsidies to either ANSI or ISO, who are
- the standardization bodies involved.
-
- I certainly agree that standards activity needs supporting, but the model
- of supporting standards activity by charging unreliasitically high prices
- for standards is an unacceptable one.
-
- In the case of the Ada standard, we just insisted to ISO that the standard
- must be freely available. It was a hard sell, but being insistent can pay
- off!
-
- We here = the entire Ada community, who is at this stage used to having
- all documents freely available online.
-
-