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From: Alexander Terekhov<terekhov@web.de>
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Subject: Cost of standards documents (was: [any] new version)] [was: boost]
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:59:25 -0700 (PDT)
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Dave Abrahams wrote:
>
>  on Sat Sep 17 2011, Alexander Terekhov<terekhov-AT-web.de>  wrote:
>
>  >  Dave Abrahams wrote:
>  >
>  >  [... setting zero price for C++ standard ...]
>  >
>  >>  Sorry, I just don't know.  As convener, Herb Sutter deals with the
>  >>  governing bodies a lot.  If you're curious, you might ask him.
>  >
>  >  Perhaps he could share his insights in a post to this thread?
>  >
>  >  Could you please drop him an email (an email from me is more likely to
>  >  die in his spam folder).
>
>  I doubt he would post here, because, well, this isn't really the best
>  forum for it.  Please take your question over to comp.std.c++ and I'll
>  be sure that he knows you're posting over there.
>
>  >  BTW, I found this:
>  >
>  >  http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_in_figures_2010.pdf
>  >  (Financing)
>  >
>  >  "140 million CHF per year is
>  >  the estimated cost for the operation
>  >  of committee secretariats financed
>  >  38 by member bodies holding these
>  >  secretariats
>  >  36 million CHF represents
>  >  the operational cost of the ISO
>  >  Central Secretariat financed
>  >  53% through membership fees
>  >  47% through sales of publications and
>  >  other income from services"
>  >
>  >  It would be really interesting to know how much exactly ISO gets from
>  >  sales of C++ PDFs (and whether making them free would really bankrupt
>  >  ISO)...
>  >
>  >  See also:
>  >
>  >  http://www.acm.org/tsc/acmfree.htm
>  >
>  >  regards,
>  >  alexander.
>  >
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regards,
alexander.


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