“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them”

Re:“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them” by inetknght on Monday March 08, 2021 @03:36PM (#26391163)

> Tim Sweeney correctly observes this, then continues to talk about "millions of hobbyist programmers". I do not believe that ISO targets, or even has any remote interest, in this market.

I completely disagree. As a hobbyist programmer I want to improve myself so that I can sell my skills to international standards. It's more difficult to do that when standards have to be bought before I can even determine how hard it would be to learn and adapt to it.

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Re:“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them” by whoknew1122 on Monday March 08, 2021 @04:35PM (#26391944)

The parent's point is that ISO doesn't care about you, the hobbyist programmer.

The parent wasn't saying that millions of hobbyist programmers don't care about standards. The point is that millions of hobbyist programmers DO care about standards. But ISO doesn't care about the milions of hobbyist programmers and therefore paywalls standards.

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Re:“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them” by indymike on Monday March 08, 2021 @05:28PM (#26392518)

Actually, hobbyist programmers often create what become competing standards to the ISO track one resulting in low adoption of the ISO standard.

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Re:“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them” by inetknght on Monday March 08, 2021 @06:09PM (#26392912)

I see and I agree with you -- I had misinterpreted the parent post.

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