ANSI C Draft

[Root Boy Jim]

	In article <296 at hadron.UUCP> jsdy at hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) writes:
	
	>I'm amazed that there isn't any more support for putting the
	>ANSI C draft on the NIC (Network Information Centre).  This
	>is a great way to make it available to half the community,
	>who can then mail it to the other half.  Let's do it!
	
	The ANSI X3J11 committee looked at doing this, but we can't for political
	reasons.  Namely, one of the parent committees, which has veto control over
	the standards process, gets it's money by selling copies of the standards
	and draft standards.
	
As the one who started this, *that's* what I'm complaining about. If you
want people to follow standards, make them available. For Free.

Larry Rosler offered free copies once, and delivered.

I can't believe said committee gets ALL of its money from sales.
What percentage of it's funding comes from sales, and where does the
rest of it come from?

	(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell		<rbj at cmr>
	Baseball in D.C. in `87!