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- From: khb@Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages)
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- In article <452@usenix.ORG> donn@hpfcrn.fc.hp.com (Donn Terry) writes:
-
- ...
- The IEEE does not allow general access to the machine readable of any
- of its standards. The key reason is that there have actually been cases
- where someone gets it, modifies it slightly for their own benefit, and
- then prints it claiming it's the standard. ...
-
- Sounds like an excuse, not a reason. It would not be hard to publish
- checksums.
-
- In the X3 world the reason is painfully clear, money. X3 relies on the
- revenues generated by selling copies of the standard to finance its
- operations (this information is a fallout of numerous arguments
- between x3j3 members and x3; I cannot vouch that it is true, but it
- was/is certainly the reason copies of the x3j3 draft are ftpable)
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