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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: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 20:14:00 -0700
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Message-ID: <emery-1804962014000001@line109.nwm.mindlink.net>
- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <dewar.829628741@schonberg> <4l0k0q$lll@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <emery-1604961852350001@line029.nwm.mindlink.net> <4l3jns$kt2@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <4l3jns$kt2@nntp.Stanford.EDU>, karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU
- (Chuck Karish) wrote:
-
- > In article <emery-1604961852350001@line029.nwm.mindlink.net>,
- > David Emery <emery@grebyn.com> wrote:
- >
- > >The U.S. DoD has paid for a substantial amount of participation within
- > >the POSIX community, and by no means limited to Ada bindings!
- >
- > Of course. I was far too flip in my previous article.
- >
- > The problem remains that the IEEE Standards Board depends on
- > document sales for a significant portion of its income.
- >
- > I would love to see IEEE standards distributed in electronic
- > form. That would save me a lot of typing. As long as the
- > standards process needs a paid support staff someone will
- > have to pay their them. Any suggestions?
- > --
- >
- > Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com
- > (415) 323-9000 x117 karish@pangea.stanford.edu
-
- I completely agree with Chuck here, except that it's not really the
- IEEE Standards Board (a volunteer management organization), but really
- the Standards Office that is supported by sales of IEEE standards. As I've
- said several times on this subject, as the editor of an IEEE standard, I've
- been very impressed with the quality of support I received from my editor
- at IEEE. She earned her $$.
-
- Also, I call everyone's attention to the column in the latest "IEEE Computer"
- by Lowell Johnson on standards. Lowell points out the painful fact that
- companies in the mid 90s are not willing to provide the corporate support
- to standards organizations that they were in the late 80s/early 90s. This
- is very unfortunate.
-
- In my opinion, what we've seen is the replacement of standards participation
- by engineers with the participation in industry consortia, which often have
- a more direct marketing/financial/business sense. This is not to say that
- individuals developing consortia documents are necessarily ruled by the $$$
- <substitute your national currency symbol here>, but rather the decision by
- management on where to invest has moved towards things that can show all
- the business school grads "return on investment".
-
- dave
-