Re:“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them”
by stuart78 on Monday March 08, 2021 @06:52PM
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Even with all of these, the cost of implementing the standard (time for engineering, design, etc.) will likely very quickly dwarf what you are paying for the standard itself. I agree that open would be better, but the fees themselves really do feel nominal compared to overall implementation cost.
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Re:“ISO obstructs adoption of standards by paywalling them”
by TeMPOraL on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @11:58AM
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The point is that it kills everything that isn't an engineering project with some funding secured. It kills exploratory work by individuals or small companies. It kills education. It kills popularization of standards.
And in case of standards in computing, like ISO 8601 - a lot of them are of interest to open source developers. If they could access them for free, they could make their code compliant. Software companies use a lot of open source, and often whether or not a product follows some standard somewhere is entirely dependent on whether the OSS component it uses follows the standard.