On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 08:19:14PM +0330, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > > > The ISO trial that was mentioned is about selling PDF-based standards > > for something like USD 25 via the net, and that seems to be an > > affordable price, according to people here on the list. > > Well, even 1 USD means non-affordable here in Iran. For each credit card > transaction I must send an email to a friend in UK, tell him all the > procedures (how should he fill the forms, etc), and then he will pay for > it. And once in a while I should call his family here in Iran, and provide > the money to them instead. > > It depends on how do you define affordable :)
I agree that the best way would be to have the standards available, at least on the web, free of charge. And as you know, there is a way to get very close to this, that I did not mention in my last mail. The way is to participate directly in the standardization process (as you do). Then you get access to the restricted portions of the standardization webs that you are working for, and there you can find almost everything including what is called Final Texts, which should be as good as the published standards, at least technically. Final Texts are the final thing as it leaves the editor of the standard. The ISO central secretariat may do a little editorial on the document, but never changes anything technical in these FTs. Kind regards Keld -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
