It is absolute bullshit that standards organizations cough ISO/IEC, ANSI, IEEE, et. al, cough make it absolute heck if not impossible for individuals to get access to standards, even if they are working on open source stuff.
I know you can buy the standards, but not all of us can afford to drop 100USD for a 14 page PDF which doesn't even have all the information we need. It's extremely prohibitive and outright hostile to individuals and small companies that want to follow standards.
And the fact these standards organizations don't have any interest in trying to help and proliferate the standards for wider adoption is frankly absurd.
This is why i'm a proponent for truly open standards, keeping them locked behind a restrictive paywall is franky, malicious.
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