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A comment on ISO 1.

Re:ISO 1 by thristian on Saturday November 09, 2013 @06:34PM (#6704103)
The thing that confuses me is that the current revision of ISO 1 was published in 2002, as an update of the original 1975 revision.

What on earth needed revising? What part of "20 degrees celsius" didn't they explain properly?

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Re:ISO 1 by shutupalready on Saturday November 09, 2013 @07:33PM (#6704359)
If I'm not mistaken, ISO makes most of its money not from member contributions but from selling paper copies of the standards. Speaking cynically, perhaps they needed a way to ensure their clients (libraries, companies, governments) will pay for "updates".
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