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From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX
Date: 1996/04/17
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references: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <dewar.829628741@schonberg>
 <4l0k0q$lll@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <dewar.829687209@schonberg>
organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Date: 1996-04-17T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <dewar.829687209@schonberg>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:

 >In the case of the Ada standard, we just insisted to ISO that the standard
 >must be freely available. It was a hard sell, but being insistent can pay
 >off!

What do you suppose would happen if some anonymous individual took an ISO
document (like say the C standard, 9899), banged off the requisite TeX or
troff code to clone it and then freely distributed it all over the place?
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