<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 5:09 PM Roland Turner via License-discuss <<a href="mailto:license-discuss@lists.opensource.org">license-discuss@lists.opensource.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
It's not a revenue question. The important issue is that all copies of <br>
an interoperability standard must say the same thing, or <br>
interoperability itself is defeated.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Having watched the recent debacle at ISO over Schematron, PDF and other specs, and observed the impassioned positions of the various standards entities arguing within the ISO special committee on free availability of specifications, I can assure you that it's very much a revenue question for the <i>de jure</i> standards organisations who are still living in a prior millennium and funding their activities from its norms.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Simon</div></div></div>