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by anonuser123456 1934 days ago
The expense is trivial, but keeps out the riff raff. If you can't be bothered to pay for a standard, it's even more unlikely you will pay for the patent pool required to realized your product.
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>riff raff

The expense is less trivial when you are a startup trying to understand a market, and you have many market segments to explore, and all of the regulations are ISO documents.

I’m sure you didn’t mean that a startup is “riff raff,” but it is true that pay to know laws create friction against new entrants when you have to spend thousands on standards just to understand what the law requires.

It’s also true that new companies aren’t always experienced in these fields. Does that make them “riff raff?”