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- From: khb@Eng.Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Advanced Languages)
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- In article <464@usenix.ORG> Don_Lewine@dgc.ceo.dg.com writes:
-
- ., The argument about altered standards is just plain silly. Given a
- monetary incentive, I can have the whole standard rekeyed. Given
- the OCR equipment I have in my office, I can scan the whole document
- at fairly low cost.
-
- And if you do those things, and it is an X3 document they have
- reserved the right to sue you. Such a threat already stopped one such
- effort.
-
- I agree that having standards online would be desireable; the logjam
- is not technical, it is economic/political/legal.
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