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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Standards - on the net or for sale?
Date: 20 Mar 1995 19:54:28 -0500
Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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Date: 1995-03-20T19:54:28-05:00
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Saying that standards should be free is not reasonable if you consider
it in isolation. Everyone wants everything to be free, but in fact
almost nothing is free.

The proper way of saying things is "I think xxx should pay for the
dissemination of standards". Standards organizations require a paid
professional staff, who will pay them is a question that cannot be ignored.

So if this thread continues, I would like to see some candidates for
xxx. After all there are a lot of people who take the not completely
unreasonable view that those who use something should pay for it!