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- From: reaper@wixer.cactus.org (Keath Milligan)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: CLASS 1&2, T.4, T.etc CCITT @#$@#!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.143921.20673@wixer.cactus.org>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 14:39:21 GMT
- References: <1992Sep1.004211.9909@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <BtwGz4.14H@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
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- In article <BtwGz4.14H@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
- >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."
- >
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- So why can't they be made available electronically?
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