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From: Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com>
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Subject: Re: Reasonably priced C11 standard?
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:56:33 -0500
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Fritz Wuehler wrote:

>            Yet something like an ISO or ANSI standard really should be
> freely downloadable or available printed for actual cost, not as a profit.

The current ISO or ANSI standards are sold for very much less than the
actual costs. They are low volume documents whose development costs are
subsidized by governments, trade organizations, private companies and
individuals.

w..