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From: karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish)
Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX
Date: 1996/04/16
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Date: 1996-04-16T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <dewar.829628741@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>"You still have to buy them from the IEEE.  They are reluctant to
>give them away because document sales pay for a significant
>portion of IEEE's support for standards."
>
>To me, this is a terrible way to deal with standards. It is very important
>to make standards freely available if they are to have maximum impact.
>This can certainly be achieved, as has been demonstrated by the Ada 95
>ANSI/ISO standard, which is available freely from the net, and can be
>copied by anyone without charge.

I'm sure the IEEE would be more willing to give away their standards
if the US Defense Department were to offer a subsidy that would
support the IEEE Standards Board.
--

    Chuck Karish          karish@mindcraft.com
    (415) 323-9000 x117   karish@pangea.stanford.edu