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ISO is full of vested interests that don't want hobbyists, the interested public, academics, and professionals to access the documents and be able to implement
by kierank 7y ago
ISO is full of vested interests that don't want hobbyists, the interested public, academics, and professionals to access the documents and be able to implement them at a lower cost.
- theincredulousk 7y agoI don't think $100 can really be considered a major roadblock to any technology professional capable of doing a standardized implementation...
- yusyusyus 7y agohaving a copy of a single ISO standard is virtually never gonna work. too many references.
- rightbyte 7y agoAlso it's way to much trouble to make the purchase departement buy them. If the standard is not on some local file server due to someone dowloading it from some russian site, it doesn't exist and I just reverse engineer the needed part of the standard from some application using it and guess alot.
- dwheeler 7y agoIn a world where there were only a few hundred standards, sure. But today's complex computer systems depend on hundreds of thousands of interfaces, and those interfaces are depended on by millions of organizations. Their business model inhibits standardization, instead of aiding it.
- jjoonathan 7y ago$100 isn't a roadblock to a funded implementation effort, but that's not the only meaningful interaction a functioning society can or should have with a standard. $100 is a large roadblock to many other types of meaningful interaction.
- la_barba 7y ago"What they should be" is always an arguable position. We can only hold them accountable to their own charter.
- jjoonathan 7y agoWhy on earth would you think that? I don't give one whit about their charter. Neither should you. In all likelihood, neither do they.
- la_barba 7y agoBecause I'm not an idealist, and I don't want to be one. I'd like to think I'm a practical person who looks at what can be done realistically. It has worked out OK for me so far. YMMV.
- wolfgke 7y ago> I don't think $100 can really be considered a major roadblock to any technology professional capable of doing a standardized implementation... The problem is: the time when people learn most about programming is as students when they have too much time and hardly any money.
- kierank 7y agoThere's no driver for XQD cards in Linux because of a $100 specification for example
- mrozel 7y agoThis has always been my opinion. Plus, I've found them ripe with anti-patterns that contradict what they actual iso standards stand for.
- holy_city 7y agoCan you provide some examples?