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Yes, well... I've both written actual standards and worked professionally on software that many non-users insisted should be licensed differently, and I suppos

by Arnt 5y ago

Yes, well... I've both written actual standards and worked professionally on software that many non-users insisted should be licensed differently, and I suppose I've heard these arguments too often over the years and have become numb. Someone's intention is that something should be free (in some way in which it is not), the effect of the proposed change would be to stop the work to produce that something. It's a good intention every time, but I'm tired of having it stop there. Wake me up when the proposal is one that doesn't disrupt the funding. And remember that when any one stakeholder thinks two things are related, then they effectively are.

Arnt 5y ago
This probably sounds as if I'm ignoring you, perhaps rudely. That's not entirely false. I heard so many people insist that some part of our business plan was irrelevant to the rest, it's really difficult to still really pay attention. The lesson from that is that if you want to change ISO's ways, you have to not sound like n previous people and trigger that reflex. Because ISO employs people who are much more polite than I am, but they too will stop listening if you sound like too many people they've rejected before, because that's a human reflex.