Timeline for Why do programming language (open) standards cost money?
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| Jun 17, 2021 at 0:56 | comment | added | Joe Flack | So lame. Making people pay for a standard that is hoped everyone will abide by is so antithetical to its entire purpose. Like shooting itself in the foot. | |
| Mar 27, 2018 at 11:30 | comment | added | Mark Amery | Of course ISO claim that the money is being spent on development of standards. They'd say that in a world where it's completely true, and they'd also say that in a world where all the valuable labour is being done by unpaid volunteers who would've made it freely available if ISO hadn't convinced them to hand over the copyrights, and where literally the only thing that ISO does is rent-seeking to enrich themselves. I don't know which of those worlds we live in, or how I'd find out, but the fact that ISO says "we're doing something useful, honest!" doesn't help distinguish the two. | |
| Apr 12, 2017 at 7:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Nov 25, 2012 at 22:27 | comment | added | Cole Tobin | AFAIK, ECMA standards are open (at least some are), but those are free. W3C is free. Unicode is free. | |
| Dec 29, 2011 at 17:15 | comment | added | ibid | The people who actually write the standard do not usually receive any of that money. It all goes into maintaining the ISO bureaucracy. ECMA, for example, distributes its standards for free. | |
| Dec 29, 2011 at 12:53 | history | edited | Thomas Owens♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 29, 2011 at 12:42 | vote | accept | Tamás Szelei | ||
| Dec 29, 2011 at 12:35 | history | answered | Thomas Owens♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |