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- From: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.clos,comp.lang.misc,comp.object,comp.std.misc,comp.lang.scheme,comp.ai
- Subject: Re: Common Lisp is a dpANS in Public Review
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.163403.7918@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 16:34:03 GMT
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- Organization: I.E.C.C.
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- >if one were to [put copies of the Lisp standard on CD-ROM], it should
- >probably include beaucoup other ANSI std dox also, for many other prog
- >languages ...
-
- ANSI gets most of their revenue from selling their copyrighted standards
- documents, which cost about $50 each. So a CD-ROM with copies of 25
- standards would have to cost about $1000 to give them similar revenue.
-
- Everyone agrees that particularly for computer standards it would be
- really nice to make them available via FTP, CD-ROM, etc. But so far
- nobody has come up with a plausible way to make up for the lost revenue
- that ANSI needs to stay in business. An advantage of the current system
- is that standards are paid for by people who actually use them.
-
- --
- John R. Levine, IECC, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 492 3869
- johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {ima|spdcc|world}!iecc!johnl
- Re-elect Vice President Potatoe-Head !
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