Re: file ID redesign proposal

[Alan Cox]

> This is one of my hot buttons.  I cannot believe that ISO, ANSI,
> IEEE, ACM, and such organizations make enough money on selling
> standards documents to justify the harm done by not widely
> disseminating them to anyone who might have an interest in
> them.

There is a cost to producing standards. Sometimes (as in the IETF) its hidden.
What I think is much more important is that standards are made available in
sensible ways to all and importantly - on equal terms. The IEEE seem to do
that bit right.

Opengroup also put the unix specification on the web for free.

Alan