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> The EU or US could just decide to pay for it. That sounds logistically very difficult. The government would need to decide _which_ standards are worth paying
by RHSeeger 3y ago
> The EU or US could just decide to pay for it.
That sounds logistically very difficult. The government would need to decide _which_ standards are worth paying for. You certainly couldn't have everyone who wants to just bill the government for however much they decide their standard "costs" to develop.
Unless it's a standard that you need to follow by law, it doesn't make sense for the government to be in charge of making it public.
- 6510 3y ago> The government would need to decide _which_ standards are worth paying for. We'd want to pay for that too!
- eternityforest 3y agoStandards are an insanely large part of tech, and the government funds lots of stuff. Is it that much different from building a bridge or something? Or we could (And I have always thought this would be helpful) have a FOSS standards forum. Want a standard, make a Git issue, people discuss it for a bit, someone makes a markdown pull request.
- immibis 3y agoIt's different if you say all standards, but if you only want the government to fund standards relative to government, then no, it's not different. It would be pretty sensible for the EU to pay the USB consortium enough money to make the standard free for all EU citizens - I think that one is already free but you get the idea. Especially because the EU wants USB ports to be mandatory on cellphones.