[helltone]

It is quite ridiculous in my opinion that the iso standard is paywalled. When it comes to standards, we should be driving adoption by making it accessible, in particular for open source developers, students learning etc. Piracy of standards may actually be beneficial for their success. I wonder who buys the access at such price and how much money iso makes it any at all.

[rjsw]

You can get the machine interpretable bits of it without a paywall [1].

[1] https://standards.iso.org/iso-iec/39075/ed-1/en/

[simicd]

Yeah totally agree. I think it's great there is an organization that works on establishing standards but paywalling them definitely adds lots of frictions. In an ideal world the org would be fully financed by its members/governments so the standards can freely proliferate. Guess the only ones paying are big corporations who can then claim to be in accordance with a standard.