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Somewhat related discussion from 25 days ago: ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them (about the Tim Sweeney tweet). https://news.ycombinator.co
by MaxBarraclough 6y ago
Somewhat related discussion from 25 days ago: ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them (about the Tim Sweeney tweet).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26390040 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26390040
- gowld 6y agoTim Sweeney is still wrong. Standards are paywalled by their national standards bodies, not the ISO. And final draft standards are available for free anyway. Furthermore, a multi-billionaire, who made his money ripping off children, complaining about paywalls is a farce.
- MaxBarraclough 6y ago> Standards are paywalled by their national standards bodies, not the ISO. That doesn't sound right. If I want access to the C++ standard document, I am required to pay ISO for the privilege. ISO hold the copyrights to the document. There are no national standards bodies in sight. > And final draft standards are available for free anyway. People don't want an approximation of the standard, they want the standard itself. If that weren't true, ISO wouldn't be taking this approach.
- pezezin 6y ago> Furthermore, a multi-billionaire, who made his money ripping off children, complaining about paywalls is a farce. Epic Games was founded 25 years before Fortnite was released, and it was already a big company when Fortnite arrived.