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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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Chuck said

"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."

Here Chuck I am afraid you are wandering into areas you don't know about :-)
DoD has provided absolutely no subsidies to either ANSI or ISO, who are
the standardization bodies involved.

I certainly agree that standards activity needs supporting, but the model
of supporting standards activity by charging unreliasitically high prices
for standards is an unacceptable one.

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!

We here = the entire Ada community, who is at this stage used to having
all documents freely available online.