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Re:EU Advocate General: Technical Standards must be freely a... by RHSeeger on Friday June 23, 2023 @07:46PM (#36453758)
> The EU or US could just decide to pay for it.

That sounds logistically very difficult. The government would need to decide _which_ standards are worth paying for. You certainly couldn't have everyone who wants to just bill the government for however much they decide their standard "costs" to develop.

Unless it's a standard that you need to follow by law, it doesn't make sense for the government to be in charge of making it public.

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Re:EU Advocate General: Technical Standards must be freely a... by 6510 on Friday June 23, 2023 @07:52PM (#36453807)
> The government would need to decide _which_ standards are worth paying for.

We'd want to pay for that too!

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Re:EU Advocate General: Technical Standards must be freely a... by eternityforest on Saturday June 24, 2023 @03:53AM (#36456551)
Standards are an insanely large part of tech, and the government funds lots of stuff. Is it that much different from building a bridge or something?

Or we could (And I have always thought this would be helpful) have a FOSS standards forum. Want a standard, make a Git issue, people discuss it for a bit, someone makes a markdown pull request.

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Re:EU Advocate General: Technical Standards must be freely a... by immibis on Saturday June 24, 2023 @12:21PM (#36460007)
It's different if you say all standards, but if you only want the government to fund standards relative to government, then no, it's not different.

It would be pretty sensible for the EU to pay the USB consortium enough money to make the standard free for all EU citizens - I think that one is already free but you get the idea. Especially because the EU wants USB ports to be mandatory on cellphones.

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