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- From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
- Subject: Re: CLASS 1&2, T.4, T.etc CCITT @#$@#!!!
- Message-ID: <BtwGz4.14H@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 12:49:52 GMT
- References: <1992Sep1.004211.9909@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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- In article <1992Sep1.004211.9909@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> al045@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gergely Tapolyai) writes:
- >What I really do not understand is why is it that I have to pay
- >information that should be public knowledge? Why do I have
-
- Because selling standards documents, like charging its members fees,
- is how CCITT and ANSI stay in business. They are *not* part of the
- government; in fact, the CCITT is an *international* standards
- organization.
-
- Since you seem to have such a good grasp of the value of a dollar, you
- might want to tell the CCITT where they can get paper, ink, binding
- equipment, and shipping for free, so they can produce their standards
- documents at no charge. "Public knowledge" does not equate with
- "giving a lengthly standards document away for free to everyone who
- asks for it."
-
- --
- Marc Unangst | Real men don't use Windows. Real men use X.
- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | Only a real man would use a GUI where the
- | shift keys after "Alt" are "Super" and "Hyper."
-