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It was that company which chose to donate the work (which your dad did) to the standards body. That's exactly my point. The standard _organization_ gets the wo
by dagw 5y ago
It was that company which chose to donate the work (which your dad did) to the standards body.
That's exactly my point. The standard _organization_ gets the work for free, but the standard _writers_ are almost always paid for their work and aren't working for free. The original comment made it sound like the standard writers where somehow being exploited or where donating their time to the standard organization.
In your analogy the writer is the food store, and the company is the person that bought the food to donate.
- teddyh 5y ago> The original comment made it sound like the standard writers [were] somehow being exploited or [were] donating their time to the standard organization. No, I read it as pointing out that ISO does not need to be paid in order to pay its contributors, since ISO does not pay its contributors. The point was about ISO, not its contributors.
- chii 5y agothe standards organization's number one goal is to continue to exist, and thus, they ask people who want the standard to pay for their existence. It's basically all a wastage, because an electronic record keeping and content management system can be cheaply administered, rather than as an organization.