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It looks like the poster confused "publicly available" with "freely available". The standards are already publicly available, they're just not free. As for free
by dark-star 5y ago
It looks like the poster confused "publicly available" with "freely available". The standards are already publicly available, they're just not free. As for free, I guess someone needs to pay all the engineers that develop these standards, so unless OP comes up with a different model of paying the engineers, this proposal is useless
- dagw 5y agoI guess someone needs to pay all the engineers that develop these standards As has been pointed out several times in this thread, the people developing these standards are not paid in any way by the organization publishing and selling the standards. On the whole they're paid by the companies or universities they already work for and develop these standards as part of their work duties.
- dark-star 5y agoOkay, then how about the people working in the company publishing the specs, there are lectors, editors, people who actually write the documentation so that it's readable, proof-readers, etc. and THEY need to be paid.
- dagw 5y agoAgain, hardly any of those people are paid by the standards organization. If they wanted to ISO could fund itself on its membership fees.