haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (99700000) (09/05/90)
You'd think if we wanted people to use and abide by standards (e.g. Posix
and ANSI C) we would print the standards in newspapers and magazines and
generally shout them from the housetops. But at least in this country
we believe in supporting the standards effort with revenues derived from
charging for copies of the standards. Hence it's a lot of work to even
learn that a standard exists, and then you have to figure out what its
name is and who publishes it and where they are and how much money you
have to send to get a copy of it.
In line with this it seems to me that what OSF is doing with Motif is
entirely reasonable.
But then we have the RFCs as standards, which are readily available by
anonymous FTP at no charge. Has that seemed to increase compliance with
the standards?
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