I see a nice parallelism with the concept of OSS. All these paywalled standards are like closed source software, in the sense that they are not created under te

I see a nice parallelism with the concept of OSS. All these paywalled standards are like closed source software, in the sense that they are not created under terms that ultimately protect the freedoms of final consumers (those who end up reading the PDF). The ISO business model is creating something (standards) and then profiting from their distribution.