At 09:36 -0600 1998/11/09, Alvaro Castan'eda Mendoza wrote: > Hi. I think that we can define some like a GNU-ISO or a FREE-ISO, >it is a ISO for free and public domain software, it >also may be for LaTeX. I am not sure what this is: ISO is an organization that has as rule to over-charge standards as a means paying for its largely considered inefficient bureaucracy. There are other alternative standardization organizations. Some claim that it is possible to have ISO standards which are not charged for (HTML is claimed top be in this category) by claiming to ISO it is unacceptable to those sponsoring the development of the standard, by raising funds paying the bureaucrats, and so forth, but many of those supposedly free standards are in reality pre-ISO working documents. So even though the idea of ISO is laudable in theory, in practise it is not, as it does not have the effect that people think it will have. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg <mailto:[log in to unmask]> * Home Page: <http://www.matematik.su.se/~haberg/> * AMS member listing: <http://www.ams.org/cml/>