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    Voted to close, off topic. ISO charges a fee for each one of their publications, not just programming language standards. They don't charge for the standard itself, but ask for a minimal fee for publication costs (possibly, ask ISO for exact answer). Also, why do you interpret "open standard" as free (as in beer)? Commented Dec 29, 2011 at 12:14
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    He is not interpreting it as such. He is just saying that if the stated goal of an organization is the wide adoption of the standards it produces, then one of the ways to help this wide adoption is making them freely (or at least cheaply) available. It is kind of like a guy at the street corner already getting paid to distribute advertising fliers and wanting to charge each passer-by a couple of bucks per flier. Commented Dec 29, 2011 at 12:21
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    A better question would be: Why does ANSI, a member of ISO, charges more for the same standard? Commented Dec 29, 2011 at 12:45
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    @Tamas Would you prefer Microsoft, Apple and Google to sponsor the C++ standard? ;-) Commented Dec 29, 2011 at 13:12
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    I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is asking about the pricing of a third-party product. Commented Aug 30, 2015 at 23:29