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. On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Hans Aberg wrote: > The idea of an ISO LaTeX is in fact not very good because the standard must > be charged to pay for the salaries of the ISO bureaucrats. It means that > the standard cannot be put up on URL's for example. The result is that > people do not buy it, and so the next version will not be as good as if it > could have been otherwise. > > This is a discussion that pops up from time to time in newsgroups such as > comp.std.c and comp.std.c++: The fellows working on developing these > standards want them to be free, so that as many as possible can read them, > but ISO insists on this charge. People that have been working for a long > time on developing such standards are generally very unhappy with the > situation: It is reasonable to charge for standards which only a few > engineers on wealthy companies need to read, but for standards of more > general use it is a poor idea. > > 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/> >