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Re:“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them” by epistasis on Monday March 08, 2021 @06:09PM (#26392908)
While A few thousand euros definitely inhibits an amateur from becoming an expert, which is a terrible thing that greatly reduces the labor pool and possibly even some startup ideas, but I'm not sure it would stop many startups.
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Re:“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them” by beastman82 on Monday March 08, 2021 @06:24PM (#26393061)
And if it did those startups never stood a chance in the first place
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Re:“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them” by Natanael_L on Monday March 08, 2021 @06:30PM (#26393111)
Not every startup has big investors from day one
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Re:“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them” by rhizome on Saturday March 13, 2021 @01:13PM (#26448576)
Of course this is adjacent to the point of the entire thread, but how many medical companies/ideas have emerged from the mythical garage?
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Re:“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them” by DudeInBasement on Monday March 08, 2021 @08:05PM (#26393969)
<Completely ignores linux> Sometimes people just want to make the world better, why stand in their way?
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