Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ian Collins Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Reasonably priced C11 standard? Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:23:42 +1300 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <9pg3ueFom1U4@mid.individual.net> References: <4F302611.2000008@verizon.net> <4F32D7E4.48484BE6@bytecraft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net A8xI9gJ4CMBlU72GJ27aBgUUKqWKu6WoMR8AE9kk5hDneu5QkA Cancel-Lock: sha1:Aca0jw4cDQ+kfsnzQsOw8qgqj0c= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; SunOS i86pc; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20111003 Thunderbird/6.0.2 In-Reply-To: <4F32D7E4.48484BE6@bytecraft.com> Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c:16939 On 02/ 9/12 09:15 AM, Walter Banks wrote: > > International standards organizations organizational bureaucracies primarily > in place to administer maintaining and distribution of the standards. I don't > see them going on junkets specifically but they do play a significant role > in making things workable. > > WG-14 which I am familiar with has effectively made almost all the > material it has available on line. This material is essentially the same > (or may infact be identical) to the released standards. In the case of > C standard documents I suspect the total sales are in the hundreds or > less. I would suspect the release process for the standard document > probably would not be paid for by the collected fees. I would be very surprised if the numbers sold were that low. Everywhere I have worked has at least one copy floating around and I'm sure there are a good number of independent developers (and language lawyers!) who paid for the $18 or $30 copes. -- Ian Collins