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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
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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"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.